We are only in the beginning of this saga. To focus solely on one person (Donald Trump) or even him and his “cabinet” is in my view a distortion of the nature of the whole of the theme and thesis. There is an enormous cadre of actors, participants and crew that are creative, capable, impassioned and pathological in their determined goal. In no way am I suggesting a “conspiracy”, rather I am suggesting an altogether human psychology having to do with nuanced, confusing and complex group identity, personal identity, group and social dynamics and above all the concept that although history does not repeat it does have a resonance. BTW, we don’t know that Mark Twain wrote or spoke “history does repeat, it rhymes” — no attribution has ever been verified for that pithy turn of words.