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That the spirit of Christmas wasn't something you could just acknowledge one day a year and be jerk the rest of the time but rather something you must carry with you all year long or it means nothing at all.

This is my argument for Valentine's Day. I personally love it and go all out, am often met with "I don't need a day to tell my SO I love them!" Well duh neither do I but it's fun to be extra festive right now so why wouldn't I want to take advantage of another chance to celebrate with them?
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Honestly, I don't notice people being that much nicer over the holidays. Part of it might be that you see people for the first time in a while, and act overly polite because of that. Some people just feel expected to be more charitable around the holidays, because that's become a social norm in America, and act accordingly. 
For a lot of people, it's also a reminder that they feel lonely most of the year, since so much media revolves around family and togetherness around Christmas. Maybe these "anti-social assholes" you speak of feel lonely around this time, and try to act nicer to compensate. Whatever the reason, I'd prefer people be nice 14 days out of the year than 0. >

I work as a delivery driver and the amount of people that don’t tip for 11 months of the year but tip like crazy during December is crazy. >

The big thing is that very few people are actually "good" or "bad" by any measure because there isn't actually a coherent way to measure that. We all maybe try to do good things when we can, but we also participate in pretty horrific systems all the time 
Being a little nicer or a little more generous at the holidays doesn't make you a good person because we still all do some terrible things, by proxy if nothing else. It does make your annual score a bit better though >

I think Christmas tends to bring out more of whatever kind of person someone already is to begin with. If you're basically a cynical and stingy "Scrooge" it's going to get under your skin and you'll probably see it as disingenuous. That was the whole point of that story. 
That the spirit of Christmas wasn't something you could just acknowledge one day a year and be jerk the rest of the time but rather something you must carry with you all year long or it means nothing at all. 
Being a "good person" or not is a separate matter but I will say that it seems that people who genuinely enjoy giving and celebrating and spending time with their loved ones are in a better mood around this time of year despite the stress of the holidays, whereas folks who perceive this time of year as a chore and a corporate money grab are less pleasant to be around than during the rest of the year.
Which is why I make it a goal to have my Christmas shopping done before Thanksgiving and mostly only go out for groceries, etc because people can be ridiculously rude in the stores during December.