Animus:
a feeling of hate or anger toward someone or something:
He harbors no animus toward his rival. [Cambridge Dictionary]
Noted in “Republicans aren’t conservatives. They’re nihilists,” Max Boot, WaPo:
Of course, a mask mandate wouldn’t be necessary if more people were vaccinated. A large part of the reason they’re not is the right’s bizarre anti-vaccine animus. Religious-right commentator Eric Metaxas sounded very much like a 1960s radical when he explained why people shouldn’t get vaccinated: “If the government or everybody is telling you you have to do something … if only to be a rebel, you need to say, ‘I’m not going to do this.’”
That may also qualify as Typo of the Day, actually. Hatred of anti-vaccine is hardly the style of the irrational right these days.
