Charles Blow on Trump’s rage junkies:

Trump is like a drug dealer who has addicted his followers to fear and rage and keeps supplying it in constant doses. His supporters have become rage-junkies for whom he can do no wrong.

Let’s be clear about the demographics of this base: While the overwhelming majority of blacks and Hispanics have an unfavorable view of Trump, just as many white people have a favorable view of him as have an unfavorable view of him, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll conducted last month.

Part of that is undoubtedly due to the increasingly racialized nature of our partisanship, but it is also because Trump has positioned himself as a white power president.

And, more overtly and obviously, as a president who is happy to fire off gross insults at black and brown people. There’s white power and there’s white contempt.

One of the things that his supporters like is the very thing that others detest: His unapologetic, unabashed crusade to fight off all efforts at racial and ethnic inclusion. They may not articulate it as such, but that is the nature of Trump’s policies: Promising to build a wall, disparaging Mexicans, separating immigrant families, the Muslim ban, decreasing even legal migration, denigrating protesting football players.

Calling Maxine Waters “very low IQ”; calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”; hanging a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office; making it obvious that he has no clue who Frederick Douglass is; slashing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Escalante Staircase monuments; the Central Park 5; birtherism. He’s an open, shameless, enthusiastic racist insult-comic.