"They hate us"

Yes, yes they do.

It's a visceral hatred that goes way beyond anything that "opposition to your views" would warrant in a reasonable person. It struck me this hatred has nothing to do with reason, and therefore it has everything to do with feelings.

I became convinced long ago that liberalism is based on self-esteem. "We believe this because it's good, it's good because we believe it; believing it makes us good, therefore we and our beliefs are good and everyone who opposes us does so because they are evil."

It is a matter of good and evil. Their presupposition is that all the things they believe are good and by extension (projection) everything else is evil. Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Prager, because they make a reasoned case for the opposition view, are evil. But because answering a reasoned case when all you have is your self-esteem means you're totally disarmed. There is nothing left to say but "You believe that because you're bad."

Thus they're left sputtering and fuming and raging and foaming at the mouth. When they visit their liberal bubbles everyone else inside is raging and foaming, and that's where they feed each other's rage and, worse, they validate it and certify the hatred. "It's okay that you hate Rush Limbaugh enough to want him to die horribly; I do too."