The crisis this nation is going through is a good time to grab a draft post and finish it. Here’s a simple one. Donald Trump is only the president of his base. Everyone else is, by definition, the "other", the enemy, the un-Americans, who should go back to where they came from.

His base adores him, in large part, because his enemies are theirs. Anything he does, no matter how ridiculous or harmful to his voters, is fine with them, as long as it irritates Democrats, liberals and progressives. Irrational? You bet. But his supporters have always known that most of his policies are bullshit, that he really can't govern in any traditional or even rational sense of that term, but all that's beside the point. These people don't believe that the hated government can solve problems or get the nation through a crisis in any case. So what if he's a clown, and his administration is a scandalous embarrassment to the nation? They love the show, and the impotent fury of the liberals and the few serious minded conservatives. And, it goes without saying that the paymasters of the Republican party may hate his oafishness, but they couldn't be happier with his tax policies, his anti-unionism, his deregulation of their companies, and his pro-corporate judges. For the one percent, this jerk is manna from heaven!