Poll Shows Plummeting Trust In Trump

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45. So true! And truly scary. Even scarier is what will happen if they win.

It's become like two different species. I have studied right-wing politics for a long time, primarily European, and the American right is unique and much harder to understand because it is not really ideological as it was with fascism. The only defining character is not what they stand for. They don't know. But they know who they hate. But who they hate is almost as hard to pin down. They are not necessarily racist or zealots or even nationalistic. What they hate is "us" or "them" who they demonize as "elites" or "baby killers" or the "others". They will always find someone to hate. Some hated "Jews". Each comes with his own private grudge. It's more psychological than logical. The self-loathing that they are looked down upon and ridiculed. It's a new type of "fascism" that Trump via Bannon really understands, intuitively. The most terrifying is that Americans, that any "civilized", rational human being can think and act like this. I used to tell my students in German history it's a mistake to think what happened there was because Hitler was evil and that it can't happen here. After all, the Nazis thought of themselves as "decent, civilized" heroes who were doing what they thought was a good thing. If they win, expect to see counter hysteria on the left.