"But people across the political spectrum have a hunger to understand those whose views seem the polar opposite of their own."

Not necessarily. I have no hunger to know why thirty percent of the population still supports Donald Trump after he's proven himself to the world to be a pathological liar, completely incompetent when it comes to governing, with little to no knowledge of how our democracy works, and a lack of a work ethic that ultimately makes it unlikely he'll accomplish much.

It's not a mystery. All it takes to support a man like Donald Trump is a lack of moral fortitude, and/or a psychological profile that allows oneself to be easily mislead, combined with an aversion to fact checking, or a disregard for truth.