You’re correct, of course. RATs have to make the rubes feel, because they surely don’t want them to think. All of the love, hate, together, “not who we are” blather is not to be taken seriously. Just for the benefit of the gullible.
The appeal to the gullible is one thing; but much of their narrative—indeed much of like narratives all the way back to Genesis;—is a deliberate effort to focus anyone susceptible on a sense of grievance. It is a very, very destructive gambit. It destroys the future prospects of most of those who bite! (The exception, of course, being the demagogues & scoundrels, who use that methodology to accumulate power & malevolnet influence.)