Trump's Contradictory Libertarianism Succeeds by Continually Failing

The Trump of 2016 and of 2024 are staggeringly different. Whilst in 2016, Trump maintained a veil of anti-bureaucratic libertarianism, he has in 2024 come to slowly avow an proto-fascistic authoritarianism. Despite this, the same 2016 support remains strong. In order to understand why the fact of Trump's radical political-ideological shift has had little effect on voters, it is important to turn to psychoanalysis.