There will always be uneducated, uninformed or easily-misguided voters. But there will not always be a Trump base: sixty million Americans who not only can stomach a racist, misogynist predator but actually like that brand of filth. You see, the guy has a rare talent, he knows how to exploit a certain human character flaw. It’s the rotten part of our soul that loves to hurt others and he exploits it for everything he can get.
We would like to think that our civilized society would discourage those impulses, but in this case civilization has failed. A guy came along who has lived his whole life by those savage tendencies and knows exactly how to awaken them in others. Hence, we have a terrible, terrible specimen of our species as President-elect, a man who would, and will, sell his country to the highest bidder. The “hope” is that, when the next reactionary demagogue comes along, he won’t be quite as talented as this one.
Chuck Redman 