Why Do People Like Trump?

Were it not for the fact that I have a fundamental aversion bordering on an active dislike for just about anyone (other than my friend Ken) who votes or considers themselves to be a Republic(an), I have to admit there are some elements about how Trump has injected himself into the political environment which I find not only to be distinct and original, but also reflecting an awareness of human and crowd psychology which no other person in public life seems to understand.

Chief among this very sophisticated sense of how people think about politics and political issues is Trump’s ability to reduce just about every comparison of what he believes versus what the political opposition believes to a simple-minded, almost childlike ‘us’ versus ‘them’ formulation in which the ‘us’ is always right and the ‘them’ is always wrong.

This rhetorical formula wasn’t borrowed from Hitler, no matter what the ‘Trump is a Fascist’ gang continues to say. Because in Hitler’s world, his enemies and opponents were defined by their geographical location or their blood, i.e., non-Germans living in Czechoslovakia, Poland and other regions that would be annexed to the Third Reich, or Jews living in Germany and elsewhere who were responsible for the German defeat in World War I.

In his public statements, Hitler never quoted these groups by anything they said about him or his…