My operative hypothesis–and obviously I’ve visited this topic many times–is that all the people whose entire morality consists in the saccharine dictum “be nice” have to have an outlet for all the hatred and anger which boils up in them. They have been trained, through propaganda, not to believe in principles, not to believe in the rule of law, and so it is hard to KNOW when it is OK to be abusive and willfully hurtful.
Trump gives this to them. He does not deserve a whiff of the vitriol directed at him and his supporters daily, but THEY HAVE NOTHING ELSE.
Unlike Alan Dershowitz, who does believe in something, they can’t simply say “breaking the law is wrong for everyone.” They can’t point to absolute principles which guide them, such as “working to cover up a rape is always wrong”, which is what Hillary was accused of by a former Democrat supporter.
They have nothing. This is why reason and logic and proportion are completely absent. They are howling ghouls because there is so much rage they feel–not least at their more or less complete disindividuation, and emotional separation from their own instinctive and intuitive knowing–that they cannot get out any other way, and it is a rage which has been boiling in a small bottle for a very long time. Ever since they found out the world wasn’t perfect, and that is was vastly easier psychologically to find some simplistic villain to blame it all on.
Leftism is very literally the OPPOSITE of healthy psychological development. We all need to wrestle with life in our own ways. They choose not to do this work, and instead view all people and circumstances through a narrow prism of good and evil, Us and Them, then cloak the whole thing from their own eyes (but not those of us who took the harder path of growing up) by lying about their intentions, affections, and capacity for tolerating actual difference.
It is childish. Clinically. These rages are those of three year olds who have never been told no, and refuse to admit it applies to them too.