It's usually the people wearing "kill your local pedophile" shirts/bumber-stickers that are the ones making hating pedophiles a little too much of their identity to degrees of suspicion. I'm not saying "all". But, there is definitely this self hatred or overly correcting defensive dynamic going on.

I think Trump attracts those same types of people. It's the ultimate defense of their own internal thoughts.

To be clear, I don't think all Trump supporters are rapists. But I am talking generally about the "cult" level supporters. But, it definitely attracts the people that would be if they had the power to get away with it. It's similar to why they defend billionaires. They see who they could/would be in their "daddy" and are living through the success that they cannot obtain.

This is mostly talking about the men within the maga cult. The woman are an entirely different but very much related part of patriarchal brain rot.