The entire point of Fox is to stoke status anxieties of its viewers. Because the network understands its viewers care about status above all else, to such an extent that they tie it to their own survival. That’s why they won’t diversify their news, why they embrace fascism, why they’d rather lose family and friends and implode the international peace order. They aren’t voting for MAGA because they like the policies per se; they like the policies because they believe the policies are reestablishing old status hierarchies from which they benefitted.