For all of my life I believed that most powerful people were somewhat rational and altruistic and that the masses had learned from history. For 60 years I didn't see how thin that layer of veneer was. And here we are. With Trump, the rich and powerful have made their step. They knew how stupid the masses are and even if they tell the masses how they are going to rape and pillage them, the masses will cheer for them. Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, ... They worked with the powerful elites that used them and their follwers fought, killed and died for them. Here we go again.