Great discussion Karen. Poison Indeed. However, if one studies how fascism works, you begin to see more nuances to Trump. He was exactly what the they were looking for to give permission to their hate, fear, and sense of victimization, even if he has no intention of actually addressing their concerns. They delight in hearing him say and do the most vile things, because they have already thought them. Moreover, when he gets caught lying to them, they like him even more. As Hannah Arendt, in her Origins of Totalitarianism, observed even when the the Fuhrer changes his crazy lies daily, his followers think that they are somehow in on the joke. They think how clever he is to be deceiving the unclean. Meanwhile, he is there to mostly serve the disgruntled elites. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/leviathan-revisited-the-people-versus-the-prince-of-plunder-f878e833da2d