There are two constituencies here, with only slightly overlapping goals. Each is using the other without thinking through all the consequences.

First, a scared and bigoted middle class, terrified that they are losing their political and economic security and cultural supremacy, desperately looking for easy answers and scapegoats.

Second, a greedy and ruthless, but essentially non-ideological, propertied elite, ready to exploit the former in order to expand and prolong their hegemony as long and as far as possible.

Its a classic combination, and a social partnership that has occasionally resonated over the last century. Eventually, one side or the other will dominate and the resulting dictatorship will crush the other. Trump is only the monster the two Frankensteins are creating.