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I think one is always building on swamp when trying to erect rational explanations for hate.
Hate is pretty-much instinct-driven. One hates enemies, one hates what one fears, one in particular hates enemy others.
Functionally, hate is the war emotion, it's job is to motivate us to enjoy the idea of hurting enemies.
In modern times, parties are tribes, and partisans naturally hate the tribal enemy. Righties hated FDR, leftists hated Hoover, and so on ever since. Even as vanilla a fellow as Ford had people trying to kill him. Add to it a guy like Obama pressing all kinds of 'other' buttons (race and more), and you've got big hate, a sort of perfect storm of hate--among the haters. Some people are more prone to it than others.
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