This country was founded by and for white racists. That has always been in the core of the culture. Trump just exposed the fact those people have always been with us and they have always been armed. Folks like Brooks have been lying to themselves about what the GOP had become in the last 50 years. They talked themselves into thinking that the Democratic racists just went away, when in reality they were recruited into the GOP. Now the GOP is just a white identity party. Brooks and his ilk have no one to blame but themselves. Instead of helping their base of "deplorables" to get good educations, they told them climate change was a hoax among other lies. The Chamber of Commerce Republicans laughed at their base on the way to their off shore banks. They became the perfect rubes for the perfect con man to find.