Their sense of self-righteousness and superiority.
They never give us any credit for being intelligent beings who disagree with them. They believe that we disagree with them because we are inferior.
One of the reasons every Republican president is labelled as an idiot, a chimp, stupid, unintelligent, crass, crude etc. while every Dem is super intelligent and so far above us they we can’t understand them. We are easy to hate because we are so far beneath them.
Good analysis there. Another good piece of the puzzle.
I suspect most leftists actually have crushing inferiority complexes. Their ideology is only “mainstream” because they convince enough semi-literate urban dwellers to vote for them (remember how they mock education levels in flyover country, while begging for votes where Spanish & ebonics are spoken?); why do you think they want voting rights restored for felons? They appeal to damaged people, assuring them they no longer have to “try” (I’m no saint, but aspire to be better rather than excuse my shortcomings). They can’t convince “normals” that they have any real answers, and those “normals” demonstrate the higher standards to which people should hold themselves.