Purgatrix,

Your post captures the problem addressed by the Civilta article. Liberals who accept that "Trump voters are monsters" reflect the same kind of dualism as fundamentalists or Catholic Integralists. Some do exist, but the idea that there are a lot of them is largely a projection from those who live with the apocalyptic, dualist worldview.

Take Hilary's "basket of deplorables." This was not a dualist rejection of some voters, but it was taken that way by people who think any criticism is a condemnation. The same thing happened with the article from CC, commentators took it as condemning a broad group of people. But it is not condemning anyone, just showing the undercurrents of some thought. In hopes that those currents would be avoided and that people can believe in working together instead of attacking one another as monsters, I imagine.