Remember, I was born and raised in the South. I know these people.

Oh sure, not everyone in the South is like them. And there are those who don't live anywhere near the South who are exactly like them. But the South is the epicenter, the fault line, it is the crater of the volcano.

I was born in the South, I grew up in the South, but I could see them clearly and could understand them precisely because I was not REALLY a Southerner. I was an anthropologist studying an Amazon tribe, the child of missionaries. I spoke the language and wore the paint but I was an outsider, and they never let me forget it. And because I was an outsider I could taste the water they swam in when they could not even imagine its existence. Unlike my fellow Southerners, I had an alternative culture I could compare them to.

I don't blame the Germans for Hitler, a majority didn't follow him. I don't even blame the Germans who followed Hitler, they were ignorant and frightened and didn't know any better. I don't even blame Hitler, he was a madman. I blame those who aided Hitler while knowing exactly who he was and what forces he was unleashing, just because they thought they could use him to get what they really wanted; because they thought they could control him and those who followed him. Because they thought they could get rid of him when they no longer needed him.

Trump will not be here forever, but they will.