This is oversimplified, and you can argue with a lot of justification that MB is a form of pseudoscience, but the classification labels are a useful shorthand for personality types.
Trump is an ESFJ. Extroverted, highly aware of social approval/disapproval, very much inclined to trust feelings rather than facts, and judgmental. His followers are mostly the same, or are in the general *S*J group.
SJ Population Statistics
Personality Type Population Male Female
ESTJ – Overseer 13% 16% 10%
ESFJ – Supporter 12% 7% 17%
ISTJ – Examiner 8.5% 10.5% 6.5%
ISFJ – Defender 7% 4% 10%
All SJs 40.5% 37.5% 43.5%
Note that collectively, SJs make up around 40% of the population, with the bulk of that in the ES*J block. Does that number look familiar?
These are the types that are most likely to both become autocrats and to follow them. Collectively, they see the world as Us vs. Them, with very little gray in it, they have trouble dealing with abstractions but are easily influenced by symbols that determine group boundaries and allegiences, work best when they not only know their place in the world but also know where other people are relative to them in the social ladder (preferably below), and usually have an "I've got mine" attitude regardless of what they actually have.
They are not concerned about fairness, because fairness implies equality and their worldview is implicitly not equal. They view Democracy, the concept, as something abhorrent, because it assumes that they aren't privileged in some manner. It's one of the reasons they see nothing wrong in gerrymandering, voter supression and so forth. In their view, too many of the hoi poloi are allowed to vote, and that just can't be allowed to stand.
Their biggest fear, in fact, is that should those pesky liberals regain power, the *SFJ block will no longer be calling the shots, and they will lose their perceived privileged positions. They want autocracy, but they want THEIR autocracy.
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