those who were physically and mentally sick -- that is, who possessed high levels of genetic mutation -- rarely survived into adulthood.
Childhood mortality was overwhelmingly due to communicable diseases (which Republicans want to bring back), not to inherent mutations.
These mutants, walking among us ... generate polarization and chaos, depravity and dysphoria, and even the gradual collapse of fertility.
"Mutants" generate no such thing. All those terrible results you list are the product of Republican politics, with its emphasis on pedophilia, corporate greed, and racism.