As someone who's spent a lot of time around Republicans, their driving mantra is that any means justifies the ends. The most principled still believe in something resembling admirable ends behind all the actions they take, but even those are a dying species.
As a prime example, take the Punisher emblem (and the mentality behind it). These days you see it on trucks and land rovers all over the place (at least here in Texas).
The character, for those who don't know, was created as an antihero who circumvents the judicial system and commits extreme violence against those he judges to be criminals. He was designed to be a commentary. From the guy that created him: “I was an anti-war person. I argued against it and certainly wrote against it...In my mind he’s not a good guy.”
From Chris Kyle, the "American Sniper": “He righted wrongs. He killed bad guys. He made wrongdoers fear him...We spray-painted it on our Hummers and body armor, and our helmets and all our guns. We spray-painted it on every building or wall we could, We wanted people to know, We’re here and we want to fk with you.”
