Chaos, Incorporated

Keep in mind that Trump is not the problem. Republicans still have plenty of other horror in store for us. A large chunk of the electorate has been conditioned by them for decades not just to be unable to tell the truth from fiction, and fantasy from reality, but to be intuitively drawn to certain kinds of lies--lies that are rooted in greed, personal ambition and a brand of comforting, ideological depravity. 

Trump was only able to hijack this Republican machine because it was so susceptible to deception. In fact it only runs on deception. But core Republican voters had also been trained to love a very specific, reassuring lie: that we're so special we're exempt from our own or any rules. This is a carryover from an evangelical outlook of fatalism, determinism and a belief that behavior doesn't matter.

In their minds we are necessarily "saved" and so relieved of any further worry about our fate. We can live secure in knowing that we were irrevocably chosen. Republicans are on the wrong side of the great human battle of accountability versus chaos. They are on the side of chaos. Now we are on the side of chaos. Republicans have put us there. It's most obvious with but much deeper than Trump. 

Though, to give him credit, Trump is Chaos, Incorporated. Republicans only wanted to blow up the government out of greed and assorted grudges. Trump is a massive loose cannon and Republicans are struggling to keep him pointed away from themselves. He is capable of destroying anything. It's unclear from what motive, though it appears to be adolescent experimentation and self-indulgence. 

Donald simply likes to watch the consequences of his actions, the bigger the better and ignoring any qualitative cast to the destruction. Trump likes to blow shit up to view the results, a form of indifferent vandalism. It makes him feel efficacious. God help us.