A conspiracy theorist would suspect trump is doing exactly as directed, causing the right amount of outrage so certain goals can be accomlpished that nobody populist would like, including his followers
Probably with an added dash of 'make his followers betray their own professed values' like bailing out farmers on the tariffs, meanwhile they talk about 'personal responsbility'
Him praising Roy Cohn as one of his closest mentors, along with Roger Stone, kinda says it all. Old pedigree of republican clown fascism that began with Nixon.
