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markinkansas I think Trump is a grifter, so he'll just say what he thinks will make him look good to his followers.
1. The more that division and hatred are sown into the fabric of society by amoral media incentives, right and wrong become framed as a culture war issues instead of legal ones. Existing or proposed laws merely become cudgels to be wielded against the opposition
2. Following this, power-hungry and influence-seeking politicians and pundits are using Trump's cult of personality to build political capital and gain positions of authority for themselves. There is usually some mix of true-believers that can be found among the less intelligent of these types
3. Scapegoats are vital to building a coalition of support. Anger and hatred generate far more engagement than love and tolerance simply because it requires less thinking. Finding someone to blame is far easier than unraveling the sequence of events that created a problem in the first place. Minority groups are easy to scapegoat because they don't have the platform or political power to defend themselves against a large, mobilized, highly volatile political movement
