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If I could, I think I can explain why they feel this way. This is not justification, but some insight. I believe all people should be allowed to live and flourish to the best of their free will and ability without harming others.
Those with siblings, think of this: it's your birthday party. You're 8. Your younger sibling is 5. All day, your younger sibling has been whining, complaining, and ruining "your day." You are forced to share with this sibling, this sibling has stolen and broken your stuff, and embarrassed you. You are forced to play with this sibling, let him hang out with your friends, and this has translated into a kind of inner resentment. Anything that they do wrong, things that you would get punished for, is excused and waved away. "He can't help it, he is young." Then, as your birthday cake is being served, he gets the bigger piece. You have the feelings and emotional control of a small child. How does that make you feel?
The deepest feeling of rage and anger, the unfairness of it all, the entitlement that was taken from you.
This is how they feel about "the others." They see handicapped and poor people "getting away with something." They feel they worked hard to achieve their position in life, and now someone just hands them food and shelter. A kind of jealousy of them skipping some process. That they didn't earn it. It's a sense of revulsion usually reserved to rotting meat. But above all, they are projecting all their unaddressed issues of playing second fiddle to someone they perceive as having it easier than they had. And this is what the liberal side fails to address, because they are like the parents in this scenario. "They can't help being poor/handicapped/disadvantaged." They are right, of course, but that doesn't address the feelings. The rich know it, as they themselves have the same emotional disconnection. Unaddressed childhood pain distanced by nannies, au pairs, and "please don't play in the main areas, Stewart. You'll soul the Matisse." Raised by parents who have kids for prestige and legacy.
The conservatives listen to their inner, unresolved feelings. And those are very easy to manipulate by the rich, wealthy politicians. And being different makes it easy to label.