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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it can be both; same mechanism, scale differs is all.
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