AN AUTHORITARIAN NIGHTMARE: What’s driving it?

Why are so many Americans willing to support hate and division?

Donald Trump has told us that only 9000 people have died of the corona virus in the United States, that shooting an unarmed man in the back seven times is like a bad putt at golf, that protests are being led by an airplane full of black-jacketed “thugs,“ and refused to condemn a vicious murderer who killed two people and blew the arm off a third. Now, he is threatening the Mayor of Portland with federal troops again.

Which raises the question, is this the America the majority of voters want to live in? If the polls are any indication, almost half of America is right there with him. Why is this?

John Dean, who worked for Nixon, joins Thom to talk about his new book, 'Authoritarian Nightmare', which looks at studies of that Trump supporters' basic personalities, and possible roots in their damaged childhoods.