Repubs built the headsets you describe with decades of agitprop, preaching fear, uncertainty & distrust. They kept it at a simmer, kept their base nicely irrational enough to keep voting for trickle down economics. It's been Munchausen by proxy from Reagan forward.
They thought they could always control it. What they didn't like about Trump was that he was too blatant, that it would turn off too many voters, so they concentrated on turning off opposition voters by pushing an astounding double standard. Their own base, of course, loves Trump because he "tells it like it is", tells it the way they feel, openly panders to irrational fear, resentment & false pride. He exploits & lays bare the fundamental disconnect from reality they've been building for decades.
And he completely wrecked Hilary "it's my turn!!!!!1111" Clinton and her idiot followers. If that's all his Presidency ever accomplishes, it's more than worth it
