They sided with a virus against their fellow citizens and the rest of humanity on Earth. Their hatred and desire to harm their enemies makes them, by any useful definition of the word, evil. Fucking evil.
And don’t go (not you, of course, but the “enlightened centrists”) and say that there are some good ones out there. There aren’t. The good ones left. What remains remains because they are motivated by hatred.
I have family, most of my family in fact, that still follows that path, and they are absolutely motivated by hatred. I am surrounded on all sides every day by republicans and trumpists, and they are completely full of hate.