The Real Fear That Explains Tribe Trump: A Growing Feeling of Powerless and Vulnerability

Let's say I tied your hands behind your back, set you in the driver's seat of a car parked at the top of a hill, shackled your feet so they couldn't reach the brake pedal, and then after you could see your predicament, I blindfolded you, put the car in gear, and you felt it slowly begin to roll down hill, gradually picking up speed. Imagine that for a moment. How would you feel? Scared, of course. But why?

It's the same question that needs to be answered to truly explain TrumpMania. Why is a serial-lying, xenophobic, offensively bombastic, crude, hate-mongering narcissist with a long list of business failures that suggest he is incompetent to run his own business much less the U.S. government or lead the Free World, appealing to so many? Yes he's doing it in part by playing to people's fears. But why are so many people so afraid in the first place? Because a lot of us, to some degree, feel like that driver in the car; worried, but powerless to protect ourselves, like we don't have much control over our lives and futures.

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