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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More precisely, a fictive demonization of a real group that may not be anything like the demonization in reality.
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