In this age of rage, it's easy for Trump to keep stoking people's anger | Henry Porter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump echoes the craziness, amplifies it, then uses the energy tha t it returns to him.
62% : Watching the last four weeks of the campaign, the uninhibited rage of Trump and his supporting acts at rallies was very striking.
50% : This is a feedback loop, but the anger doesn't just circle with the same intensity between Trump and his people; it steadily increases.
43% : The anger is not simply going to evaporate when Trump takes over in January, not only because it's too important to people's sense of political self but also because the communication channel between the president and his supporters works only at this level.
36% : The solution for both parties will be to maintain the anger but divert it away from Trump.
31% : His failure will be a problem for his supporters, who can't lose faith in their idol, and also for Trump, who must not let their support fall away.
30% : There is no telling where this will end, no sense where national resistance will come in a society that is unused to dealing with an authoritarian who exploits dark and violent emotions as expertly as Trump does.
28% : President-elect has lined up scapegoats to keep provoking his supporters' fury and deflect any blame away from himselfDonald Trump and the Republican party may have won a decisive victory, but do not expect the anger that has blighted America since Trump announced he was running for office nine years ago to subside.
27% : Trump has been lining up scapegoats.
26% : Trump will always be able to satisfy Maga anger by promising new and more cruel actions against immigrants, among which measures are likely to be privately run detention camps.

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