I agree that many in our country feel dispossessed, especially since the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980's, which over time has ended a period of a great middle class prosperity and a working class in which a husband with one job could support a family. Slowly the economy has deteriorated for the working class and a good portion of the middle class, but vastly improved for a new information-age wealthy class, effectively creating an enormous gap between rich and poor. Big bank bailouts after the 2008 recession gave birth to a resentment that's only grown worse since 2010 when Mitch McConnell and a Republican majority in the House and Senate vowed to block any move President Barack Obama made to improve deteriorating economic circumstances--as in rebuilding our infrastructure, providing millions of jobs.  Ironically, the bailouts helped Obama to slowly but surely raise employment, reduce unemployment, conditions that were picking up steam when Trump entered the picture and Reagan-like, gave tax cuts to the rich and is taking credit for an economy that would have run him over with its Obama impetus, had he done nothing. Mitch McConnell is the father of our current state of political division, seeding it with his hatred of Obama, living up to his pledge of blocking everything he attempted to do, refusing even to consider his nomination for a Supreme court justice;  an act without precedence.  Today he is sitting on a pile of bills the Democrat House has passed. The resulting lack of bipartisanship between the two political parties fuels the distrust of government and the near hatred for the other side.  Coupled with a globally threatening sense of a loss of national identity, the folks who back Trump with such fervor, with their distaste for civil rights for anyone but themselves, overlook the weaknesses of the man because the God in him will bring this nation back to its fundamental senses. His every act of demolishing our institutions draws an applause of appreciation from them, not one of whom recognize he is plowing the ground for  dictatorship which already exists in those countries whose leaders he has fallen in love with.   Why did he, following a phone call from Turkey's strong man ruler,  consider ordering our troops out of Syria? Consider the Kurds, and ask why? (I couldn't resist.) With respect to my comparing Trump's followers to the Germans under Hitler: considering the education program of instilling Aryan purification, most of what Hitler did, they accepted--they too were beset by a poor economy, one that saw wheelbarrows of money being paid for a loaf of bread. Finding out about the eradication of Jews, I believe it was more of: My God, what have we done? rather than if we had only known about it we would have stopped it    

Sorry, Reg, if I haven';t addressed all of your points.  I forgot the title and couldn't retrieve your post.