In reply to Kirk.
Mr. Perry, you hit on a topic that horrfifies me to ponder. It now seems to me that no matter how much progress we make on racial or national origin or religious relations, the differences will always drive a certain percentage of people to dislike and distrust others and blame them for their own limitations. My brother is one such individual. He has long been distrustful and wary of myself and another brother. You see, my brother is a truck driver who has struggled with drugs and alcohol. He's not educated and he's poor. My other brother and I are educated and relatively well off. Every time I communicate with him, he mentions how he knows that I have a Masters degree, but... And the "but" is followed by some reasoning why he believes Trump is the best president we've ever had or some reason why he's being held down in life. Usually, his venom is directed toward people he perceives as very different from him. Before he voted for Trump, he voted for Obama. However, he always explains that this vote was his effort to give the black man a chance and somehow Obama failed him. I have come to believe that millions like him are first, very rarely introspective - they never examine their thoughts or their own actions as the reason for their failures, and second, they fixate or are led to fixate on people that they perceive are getting a life benefit that they are not and they are prone to believe conspiracy theories to explain their particular discomfiture. Part of me acknowledges that these people always existed, but another side wants to know why. Trump is an expert at seizing on this feeling of inadequacy and exploiting it. His strange statements about being their retribution seemed odd to me, but obviously it resonated with his base. The people in his base are almost gleeful with Trump's attempts to tear up norms and replace them with anyting else - and I mean anything. I think that is why none of the core blink when he shatters convention. I often wonder what comes next and how will they respond when their savior (Trump) is out of office or dies.
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