The panel discussion, just to add more hilarity to this theater bizarre, was called 'Trump the Race Card: Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called A Racist When You Know You're Not One?'. This is the type of thing that makes one's head spin, because on first read you can't tell if it's satire or not. But it is CPAC, and its very real (even if the guy was a plant, or trying or start trouble, the panel discussion was a real thing). Do they not see that they've turned their "conference" into such a joke that late night comedians don't have to write any material? They just have to read the name of the panel and everyone laughs.
The real problem is that they now assume that the media will make fun of them no matter what. They assume that everything is biased against them. This means that whenever they are mocked (rightfully or not) that it just plays back into the narrative that tells them that the media will mock them. I don't know how you break this, and it bothers me.
Those are symptoms of paranoid delusions. That some people behave this way is inevitable, as the world is always going to have crazies, and that's OK. That this many people are having paranoid delusions is nothing short of a phenomenon. If it wasn't so frustrating it would be interesting to just observe. Unfortunately, this kind of shit has real world implications like climate change denial and the Iraq War, the greatest delusion of modern conservatism. (Today is the 10 year anniversary of when W went all cowboy and gave Saddam 48 hours to get out of town. What a badass.)This means that whenever they are mocked (rightfully or not) that it just plays back into the narrative that tells them that the media will mock them.