Trump's power base: Low income Americans with a high school education and an understanding that American elitists with Stanford or Yale degrees look down on them, American racists and both foreign (Israel and Russia) and American special interests. 
He needs to blow his dog whistle at least once a month to let each know he is secretly working for them. This time is was the murderous Jackson, a slaver who seemed to enjoy torturing the people he kept in slavery. So this lets the racists know he and Bannon are working for them.
A little bit ago it was giving Netanyahu the keys to the White House, and as for Putin, I have little doubt that relationship is nurtured in secret. After all, several Russians were grabbed for helping the US cybersecurity experts, just after Trump/Flynn/Bannon were given security briefings and took office.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/russian-cybersecurity-experts-face-treason-charges-cia
Trump is our dark mirror.


Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon