"The reason that dictators come into power is because not only are they willing to bend whatever guardrails are there to prevent him from becoming a dictator in the first place, it is because he's swept in there by the power of populism. He's offering a specific vision of what that future will look like.

Trump's promise to the populist movement is that he believes that their way of life is being destroyed. The place where they have power, they have economic security, they have what they believe is a sense of, at the very least, psychological safety, and at the most, psychological dominance over outside influences..." - Tiny Nguyen