When Trump was nominated to be the person chosen by the Republican Party, there was no doubt in my mind that Trump had brought all the racists, bigots, and deplorable people into the tent of the Republican Party. Things have gone from bad to worse.
There is no doubt that Trump appeals to the racists, and they follow him because he is one of them.
For example, those white Americans who hold racist and racially resentful values towards Black and brown people are more likely to support the Republican Party and Donald Trump than they are the Democrats. Trumpists are also much more likely to hold racist and white supremacist values than are the general public. Contrary to the mainstream news media’s repeatedly disproved conclusion that it was (white) “working class” anxiety that drove Trump’s support in 2016 and 2020, political scientists and other experts have shown that it is actually white racism and white racial resentment that were and are the primary determinants of support for Trump(ism). A majority of Trump and Republican voters now believe in the antisemitic white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory that non-whites are being “imported” into the country to “replace” white people. Other research has shown that a large percentage, if not the majority of white Republicans and Trumpists, would support a dictatorship in America instead of sharing equal political and social power with non-whites.