This from the California Tourism Board.

[Anomalocaris]

no, but conservatives are the ones who enlofted scapegoating to the status of the most effective tool in the policy battle.   but they are not the only ones who can wield such an efficacious tool.

they are also responsible for degrading the effectiveness of other tools.   so they have no one to blame if the tool they made so potent becomes the tool of choice to use against them.

Which pretty much disables your point that scapegoating corporations becomes more effective when a country drifts to the right - the people on the right are less likely to scapegoat big oil and the powers-that-be on the right are more inclined to protect big oil.

Boru

not really true.   people who are susceptible to the right’s scapegoating is susceptible to scapegoating in general.   the core of their motivation is shifting the blame for their own unsatisfactory state onto others.   they can be persuaded to blame the corporations just as easily as they can be pursuaded to blame immigrants and liberals.  the only reason why they tend to scapegoat immigrants and liberals is because the right wings had hitherto been far more enthusiastic and unscrupulous practitioners of the art of scapegoating.     

However people who are susceptible to scapegoating tend to have no long term inward loyalty to anything except inflating their own self worth by shifting blame for their failure onto others.  hence republicans who pride themselves on not being RINOs can fervently believe in anything their fuehrer says no matter how contradictory that is to what they had professed to be their core conservative principles yesterday.   who they support depends on who paints a more cartoonishly blood curdling picture of what is asserted to be their enemy.     so the right wing may have embraced the game more at first, but they have created an arena in which their causes are as easily flammable as they causes they loath and dread.