Stopping Trump

I. Stretching the Edges of the Permanent Resentment Faction
"His [Trump's] support cannot be called a movement; he merely stretches the edges of the permanent resentment faction -- mostly white, mostly male -- that has figured continuously in our political scene, in various guises, since the George Wallace campaign of 1968." "Out of 429,000 registered Republicans, in a state with 2.1 million registered voters overall, Trump won Connecticut with just 123,000 votes." Trump's knockout blow in Indiana came from just 13 percent of the eligible primary electorate." "Trump's unlikely but conceivable route to victory lies in the same low turnouts that powered his standing as the presumptive Republican nominee. Trump wins only through psychological voter suppression: a protracted campaign of such ugliness, directed at a democratic nominee already widely disliked and mistrusted, that vast numbers of voters in key states become even more alienated from politics then they are now and stay home in November." "But only Trump understood that a Republican wins in this era of painful, unprecedented economic inequality by effectively taking everything else -- abortion, gay rights, military expansion, and global free trade -- off the GOP menu." [1]

"In the face of a weary and skeptical public, it will take turnout across a potent and diverse combination of highly motivated constituencies -- and across the generational divide -- to ensure Clinton's victory."

II. Trump's God Machine
"Trump's life seemed to represent everything evangelicals and social conservatives stood against: excess, indulgence, opulence, cynicism." "Trump has long boasted of supporting access to abortion and being a playboy, using the crudest language to sexualize women." In February, a group of evangelical and social conservatives quietly formed a coalition of  'not Trump now or ever' believers and called themselves Conservatives Against Trump. [2]

Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm, said "he wonders what happens when evangelicals who were screaming that 'character matters' throughout the 1990s...  now are willing to say character doesn't matter?" Samuel Rodriguez Jr. (National Hispanic Christian Leadership Coalition president) still hopes Trump will apologize to Latino immigrants for his "hurtful, erroneous and dangerous" comments. "Latino evangelicals are more divided than white evangelicals on Trump," he says.

Elizabeth Dias, the author of the article being referred to in II., concludes that social conservative leaders believe that Donald Trump is a better vehicle than  Hillary Clinton to advance their views.

III. Donald Trump: More Like Mussolini Than Hitler
"Trump's bombastic manner, the theatrical pauses in his delivery, his sideways poses and disapproving little pouts all owe more to Mussolini than to Hitler." Trump heads an "insurrection designed to depict the Democrats not as political adversaries, but as usurpers, criminals, and callous accomplices to the murder of innocent Americans." "But the real danger comes from the normalization of menace and ridicule as substitutes for political debate and disdain for arguments, or facts, or evidence." [3]

ADDENDUM:
*In a series running in the Washington Post in the summer of 2010, Dana Priest and a fellow reporter, named William Akin, I believe, detailed the growing spread of the U.S. intelligence empire. This empire encompassed 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies working on programs related to counter-terrorism, Homeland Security and intelligence-gathering in ten thousand locations. An estimated 854,000 people,  nearly 1.5 times as many as live in Washington D.C., held a top-secret security clearance and 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work had been built or were under construction.

There were 51 federal organizations and military commands in 15 U.S. cities tracking the flow of money to and from terrorist networks.

Footnotes
[1] Bruce Shapiro, "How to Stop Trump," The Nation, June 6/13, 2016.

[2] Elizabeth Dias, "Trump's God Machine," Time, June 13, 2016.

[3] D.D.Gutternplan, "Un-American Activities," The Nation, August 15/22, 2016.