Donald Trump has been compared to Adolf Hitler, Gaius Caligula, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
But perhaps it would be even more accurate to compare him to Armus, an alien life-form depicted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Skin of Evil.”
The episode opens as the Enterprise receives a distress signal from a shuttlecraft that’s crash-landed on Vagra II, a desolate planet. Captain Jean Luc Picard sends an Away team to rescue counselor Deanna Troi.
The shuttlecraft is being prevented from taking off by Armus, a living mass of black, viscous, tar-like substance.
Armus is a malevolent life form created by an ancient race of Titans. They birthed him by purging themselves of all their evil traits. Then they abandoned him on a desolate planet, consumed by his own anger.
Armus confronts Will Riker in “Skin of Evil’
Armus brutalizes second-in-command William Riker and kills security officer Tasha Yar with a psychokinetic blast. Eventually Captain Picard lures Armus into lowering the force field around the shuttlecraft so Troi can be beamed up.
But Armus himself can’t be killed. He is immortal, a living being of pure evil, and can only be confined to the planet he’s been abandoned on.
Like Armus, Trump is the repository—and beneficiary—of the evil of his followers.
Every four years, Republican voters search for a Presidential candidate who promises to humiliate and destroy those they hate among their fellow Americans.
These intended victims include:
- Blacks
- Hispanics
- “Uppity” women
- Liberals
- Atheists
- Non-Christians
- The highly educated
- Asians
- Muslims
- The legitimate news media
In 2016, Donald Trump was unquestionably the candidate who got—and kept—their blood-lust running. His campaign took off early in the polls and never lost momentum—or high ratings.
This was especially true among rural, evangelical voters—for whom sex-drenched issues such as abortion, transgenders and birth control are an obsession.
And they enthusiastically supported him during his first and second terms in office.
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On August 30, 2017, an article in Salon examined why Trump’s base supports him so fanatically: “Most Americans Strongly Dislike Trump, But the Angry Minority That Adores Him Controls Our Politics.”
It described these voters as representing about one-third of the Republican party.
From the article:
“These are older and more conservative white people, for the most part, who believe he should not listen to other Republicans and should follow his own instincts….
“They like Trump’s coarse personality, and approve of the fact that he treats women like his personal playthings. They enjoy it when he expresses sympathy for neo-Nazis and neo-Confederate white supremacists.
“They cheer when he declares his love for torture, tells the police to rough up suspects and vows to mandate the death penalty for certain crimes. (Which of course the president cannot do.)
“…This cohort of the Republican party didn’t vote for Trump because of his supposed policies on trade or his threat to withdraw from NATO. They voted for him because he said out loud what they were thinking. A petty, sophomoric, crude bully is apparently what they want as a leader.”
Supporters giving the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute to Trump
According to an August 29, 2017 survey by the Pew Research Center, they comprised only 16% of the population. That left 65% of Republicans who were revolted by Trump’s personality and behavior. But they were being advised by GOP political consultants to vigorously support him.
“Your heart tells you that he’s bad for the country,” one anonymous consultant told the Salon reporter. “Your head looks at polling data among Republican primary voters and sees how popular he is.”
It’s precisely these hard-core Fascists who come out in mid-term elections—and they scared the remaining 65% who make up the GOP establishment.
Georgia’s 14th district offers a vivid example of the mentality of hardcore Trump supporters. From 2021 until her resignation in 2026, it was represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Among the highlights of her career:
- Slandering Democrats as Nazis.
- Comparing masking and social distancing—then the only safety measures against COVID-19—to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.
- Attacking Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, for daring to contradict Trump’s ignorance- and lie-riddled statements.
- Supporting Trump’s efforts to illegally overturn the 2020 Presidential election, claiming it had been “stolen” from him.
- Calling for pardoning the defendants who violently attacked Congress on January 6, 2021.
The residents of Greene’s district feel left behind by years of change. As the U.S. becomes more urban, secular, and diverse, they feel “culturally oppressed.”
“They see themselves as great Americans, proud Americans, Christian Americans, and that doesn’t fit the American model anymore as they see it,” said Jan Pourquoi, owner of Global Works LLC.
Their top priority: Stick it to those who are urban, secular and non-white.
Georgia’s Congressional districts
Lisa Adams, a fervent supporter of Greene, called her: “Our stand-up person. Look at her stance on transgenderism. That’s a big one.”
Suppressing the rights of others has long been a priority of Republicans. Among their targets: Blacks, Hispanics, “uppity” women, liberals, atheists, non-Christians, Asians, Muslims, the legitimate news media.
Their latest intended victim: Transgenders.
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THE GREATEST DANGER FACING AMERICA–REPUBLICAN VOTERS: PART TWO (OF THREE)
In Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Politics, Social commentary on November 10, 2026 at 12:23 amSuppressing the rights of others has long been a priority of Republicans. Among their targets: Blacks, Hispanics, “uppity” women, liberals, atheists, non-Christians, Asians, Muslims, the legitimate news media.
Their latest intended victim: Transgenders.
Republicans have accused transgender men of posing a menace to women. But according to a new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law:
In late 2025, the Republican U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation aimed at criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors.
And then there’s abortion. To quote Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia supporter Lisa Adams: “That’s a big one.”
Republicans sought to re-criminalize abortion since the Supreme Court legalized it in 1973. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion and returned regulatory authority to individual states.
This has led Right-wing states to prosecute women who obtain abortions even in cases of rape, incest or when their lives are endangered by pregnancy. Thirteen states have a total abortion ban; 28 states have abortion bans based on gestational duration.
Thus, so long as Greene supported attacking those groups her constituents hated—such as transgenders and abortion-seekers—her constituents loved her.
“The biggest thing that Marjorie contributed wasn’t even in legislation,” said Gavin Swafford, who worked on Greene’s initial campaign. He didn’t care that she had failed to cut bipartisan deals and bring federal money back home.
“She was unwavering in ‘America First,'” said Swafford, referring to cultural issues she championed.
Nor did her supporters care that her lies about COVID-19 had led untold numbers of men and women to forego wearing masks and social distancing in 2020 when no vaccines were available. Or to forego getting vaccinated once vaccines became available in 2021.
Those lies—along with those told by President Donald Trump—cost the lives of 400,000 Americans during 2020, his last year in office.
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Like Greene, her base is equally motivated by hatred—of the same persons and organizations whom Trump regularly attacks. During the 2016 campaign, countless such voters told interviewers: “He says what I’ve long been thinking!”
There is a historical precedent for this behavior—in the Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler.
In his 1973 bestseller, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, historian Robert Payne bluntly held the German people accountable for the crimes their Fuhrer committed in their name:
“Ultimately, the responsibility for the rise of Hitler lies with the German people, who allowed themselves to be seduced by him and came to enjoy the experience….
“He promised them what they had already promised themselves—power, dominion, Lebenraum—and they followed him with joy and enthusiasm because he gave them license to pillage and murder to their hearts’ content.
“They were his servile accomplices, his willing victims….If he answered their suppressed desires, it was not because he shared them, but because he could make use of them. He despised the German people, for they were merely the instruments of his will.
“Many Germans voted against Hitler, but few fought actively against him. And of those even fewer fought with clean weapons and clear consciences.
“The colonels and generals who so ineffectively attempted to assassinate him on July 20, 1944, were already corrupted because they had fought in his wars and were accessories to his crimes.
“They worked to save their own skins and their traditional way of life. And when they spoke of ‘saving Germany’s honor’ they were speaking about something that was beyond saving.”
During his first term as President, Trump viciously attacked many of the institutions Americans had cherished for more than 200 years. And during the first two years of his second term he accelerated those attacks.
Among his targets:
Donald Trump
Why did Republicans almost unanimously stand by Donald Trump despite the wreckage he made of American foreign and domestic policy?
Fear—that they would lose their privileged positions if they didn’t.
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