"Trump’s political career will someday be seen as an interesting era not for the good that resulted but for the damage done. Mussolini, Juan Peron, and other dictators were interesting in the same way."

You are absolutely right! That so many Americans are behind this monster is perhaps the single most baffling phenomenon of my lifetime . As a child, I wondered the same thing about Germans, and I see the same inexplicable occurrence here. There appears to be a special kind of stupid not necessarily linked to low native intelligence.