"Right Wing Authoritarianism" is the label we put on the feature of general hominid/primate mental architecture when it manifests among humans. Cultural, social, and economic forces arise from those roots like that one, and history is the record of the outbreaks. So it's all a continuum, really, not so much a different filter as different spots on a spectrum of understanding. A parallax view.

It helps to see events at multiple levels of resolution like that. For obvious reasons over the last year, I've been motivated to read history, at one scale the story of Hitler's personal rise to power; on the other, the societal scale of Weimar Germany, and how it formed the amniotic fluid that combined with the DNA of Hitler to give birth to National Socialism.

I'm currently reading "Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939", currently at around 1932, just as the decade of work (that Trump is trying to skip) is starting to pay off. The disturbing thing about the multilayered picture of history that emerges from my reading is, not so surprisingly, the similarity of the raw material that Hitler and Trump are working with. Hitler didn't force Germany into anti-Semitism, he further enflamed an already virulent strain of it and exploited it; just as Trump is mining the deep vein of American racism and racial resentment.

We've all read seeming terabytes trying to explain Trump's followers. The common trope has been that they're economically distressed white people, their lifestyles slipping away and their futures bleak. Except that actual analysis of Trump's actual followers shows nothing of the sort. Most are doing fine economically, and they don't care that Trump's economic "policies" are an incoherent word salad. All these decades, it turns out, they only heard the dogwhistle, and ignored the pretty theories. Look into their shriveled little hearts, and you find that what really motivates Trump's followers is naked bigotry and racism.

For the ones old enough to remember, it's George Wallace all over again. A rematch, and maybe this time for sure, they can wipe out a century of social progress by putting one of their own in the White House.

The bookmakers are just hedging their bets these days when they give Clinton 80%+ odds of winning the Presidency, against some wildcard that upsets everything at the last minute. Trump will go down in flames. But I share the thinking person's concern about what happens next. The Deplorables aren't going to just evaporate. And now they've tasted blood.