I think you have it exactly backwards - that the people who hate him just in and of himself do so for very good reason - because he’s a foul, self-absorbed, sociopathic serial liar, manupulator and rapist - and that it’s the people who ignore the plain truth about him and grant him respect he doesn’t deserve who are motivated by their own weakness.
The “wrong man” bit is just an additional layer of evil really - it’s not as if they could’ve killed the “right man” over a stolen weed eater.