They used to call this Pauline Kael syndrome. Pauline Kael used to be a columnist for The New Yorker. Back in 1972, writing about the George McGovern/Richard Nixon landslide election, she famously observed, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.” She could feel the evil rolling off those people.
