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Are there any theories of demonization (is there a word used by scholars)? An initially banal dislike of a specific outgroup snowballing into an all-consuming fear/hate of it? Extremist groups seem to self-define wrt another extremist group, not the mediocre middle.
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The mediocre middle is The People, an aggregate term for the current and future generations of The Ordinary Person in whose name and from whose acquiescence all ideologies claim to derive their legitimacy.
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