I think the big challenge is Trump awakened something in folks who haven't been politically active in a very long time, and because they haven't been politically active, they aren't coming into politics with a clear ideology or set of policies they want to see passed other than "I like trump!"

Yeah I wanna slightly amend that - I think their ideology is certainly "I like trump" but I think the reasons behind that are they see him as a big strong leader who validates and legitimises their prejudices - and will allow them to act on those prejudices. Suddenly the hate they felt for their immigrant neighbours, or their fear of gay people, whatever - suddenly they have a leader saying that's okay and he's now supporting their discrimination with military deployment in US cities.

This is how fascism happens - it's not always forced on a population, a lot of times a lot of people want it.

And the oldskool republican party was essentially a corporate mouthpiece.

Scary fuckin times, mate. The snowball is rolling down the hill and it's growing and it's accelerating.