This is what socialists do. Belittle and de-humanize those who don’t agree with you. In the end, it helps the conscience stay clear when you cattle-prod them into the gas chambers.
Sam, you’re exactly correct. This is what ideologues do, pigeonhole and dismiss, reduce people to mere ideas. However, we on the conservative side have to be careful not to become ideologues. “Conservatism” (if there is such a thing) is the antithesis of ideological because there are no perfect ideas, no perfect systems and no perfect people because we all fall short of the glory of God.