The qualities of Trumpism

[ffr]

I'm trying to understand it, so I can better understand what makes MAGAs tick.

Trumpism (a set of people, sui generis, who) subscribes to a pseudo-scientific belief system that justifies

racial hierarchy
social inequality
sexism
and imperialism

It is a self perpetuating belief system holding that America's greatest is restrained by its current heterogeneous society and that its path to purity and nationalistic greatness will come through social divinity focusing on these ideals.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. At the bottom of it all is fear.

Trumpers are afraid of losing their privilege, and they've convinced themselves that "the others" are coming to take it away from them. Fear is what motivates Trumpers more than anything, and Trump intentionally stirs up and magnifies their fear. It's the MO of demagogues everywhere.