@realcaseyrollins @gsymon yeah. that's my interpretation too, of trump both then and now. he is more narcissist than ideologue. i don't think he has much in the way of social or political views beyond a suite of inchoate resentments. but he admires, tries to appropriate, tactics he perceives as effective at accumulating power. hitler was a successful propagandist. trump wonders if he can't win from the same playbook. i do think he'll be more authoritarian in a new term tho, bc he was humiliated.