Trump is the perfect leader for folks who's most important accomplishment in life is managing to be born white. Merit and equality are demotions for them. They are motivated by fear, anger, and resentment, nothing aspirational. They yearn for the good old days when lynching was considered family entertainment by white folks. You know, those days depicted in John Wayne movies. The GOP has spent the last 50 years recruiting them. As a 3rd generation con man, Trump just knew what to offer the rubes.