The spectrum that goes from moderate to ideologue to dehumanizer strikes me as being particularly insightful. I like that it counts all who are neither ideologues nor dehumanizers as part of the vast center. It also demonstrates (consistent with Critical Theory) that to become an ideologue is to get on a path that can all too easily lead to becoming a dehumanizer: that way lies totalitarianism.

I think we are witnessing, however, that people can become dehumanizers in a political way without ideology. As I see it, this new breed of self-styled 'conservatives' in the U.S. (and their equivalent in other nations), who are as a group are fast becoming total dehumanizers, are not driven by ideology, but only hatred. They have targeted liberalism as an outlet for the sociopathic antipathetic emotional state in which they exist. "Antipathetic" conveys here, alongside its standard meaning, that they--especially as white people, and most especially as white males--are revulsed to an insane degree by the thought that they could be seen as being 'pathetic'.