I grant that I might “overestimate the other side’s extremism, hostility, [and] interest in political violence” toward me. Regardless, I want to survive. That someone doesn’t want to shoot me every day, but only wants to shoot me every other Tuesday, isn’t much comfort. Nor does it help to know that they don’t feel hate toward me and that their violence isn’t meant personally but is simply a matter of their political principle or party agenda. Is it just that we have an ideological disagreement—they want to kill me (sometimes), and I want to live? Well. I don’t think my “emotions can be downright wrong” on this topic. My emotions in favor of my own survival are correct. I want no one to shoot at me ever, at any frequency, for any reason, be they motivated by their emotional “affect” or otherwise. I do consider that to be bad behavior. I don't have to hate them in return, but my opinion will polarize against them.