In his 2016 campaign, without a strategy or plan, Trump fell back on his past practice of attacking adversaries.
The reality show host simply stumbled into using cruel remarks to entertain people attending his rallies.
He quickly found that his bold remarks would produce news headlines, and live cable TV coverage would follow.
He also found that yelling “build a border wall” and “make America great again” would bring a rousing applause.
Twitter rants and mean-spirited attacks resulted in daily news headlines and increased visibility.
Ideology lost its political appeal, extremists took over, and social media became their weapons of choice
Eventually, attacking adversaries became the best pathway to power.
Voting these extremists out of office now seems to be the only sure way to save democracy
Larry D. Lauer 
Again you are spot on in assessing the affect that DT continues to have on our democracy. Thanks for stimulating and clarifying our current state of affairs.