Working class Republicans fixated on the shiny object dangling and spinning in front of their eyes, its sparkling facets shining out memes like "hate the Jews", "socialist commies", "they want to take my guns", "anti-Christians heathens", "Muslims must be banned", "brown invasion from the south taking our jobs", "Obamacare is fascist oppression", "radical leftists are crashing and burning the country to the ground", "Abortion and Gay Marriage is sinful!" and on and on and on. All this mesmerizing going on while the few very wealthy families like the Kochs, etc. who own and operate the Repub party are playing their beholden conservative serfs for the fools that they are, getting ever richer by the second.
The wealthy folks who control the GOP say "it's the liberals who are keeping you down with their socialist commie safety net programs that promote freeloading" and their indentured peasants cry out "Fuck Yeah!! We don't need no Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, infrastructure projects and such, let's just give our money to the rich and they will take care of us!!". All while so many of them are gladly and quietly dependent on those very "socialist" programs to maintain a modest barebones lifestyle.
Their corrupted politicians scream out "Cut taxes for the rich! Small government!" and their lowly commoners cheer them on and say "Yes! Yes! even though we have no idea why!!"
Insanity reigns supreme. Among their peasant class, self-preservation and self-interest has somehow been interpreted into meaning that they should all sacrifice their lives at the alter of Corporate Greed or the boogeyman socialist commies hiding under their beds and in their closets will rape their children and steal their jobs. Trump is their one and only hope of keeping the "fascist socialists" from plunging the nation into "a hell on earth".
Imagine that. A degenerate, lying, hopelessly selfish, Putin loving mentally crippled admitted racist and abuser of women is their last and best hope to make and keep America great, whatever the fuck that means. Insanity I tell you.