By Michael Brown, The Stream - To his loyal supporters, he is a courageous hero of superhuman proportions. To his fervent detractors, he is the incarnation of evil itself in exaggerated form.
Why does Trump elicit such extreme reactions? More to the point: Why do his detractors hate him so much?... The first and most obvious reason is that Trump has been, at various times, nasty, cruel, crude, and vicious, and his detractors are responding in kind, giving him some of his own medicine.