The funny thing about Donald Trump is that if he really were to "speak his mind" - as his supporters so graciously praise him for - even his supporters would grow to loathe him. A right wing authoritarian like Trump is only interested in domination. The solidarity he builds with his supporters is mostly tactical - I'd be willing to concede that perhaps he does feel vague connections, but I can't claim to know his mind.
Above all else he is mining, going full bore into the resources he knows he can tap, while alienating the resources he knows he will never reach, which as it happens strengthens the resources he has tapped into. His reactionary base loves the liberal bashing and the hippie punching.
His "honesty" takes place within a carefully constructed narrative and mythos, and is a cunning ploy to consolidate power. The fact that he is a billionaire is reason enough for me to suspect that he secretly laughs at this mythos.
The structure of his movement illustrates a general distinction between far right and far left movements. The right prefer to associate in these tensile structures of tiered domination, with those who are perceived to be strong and charismatic taking higher positions. Domination is maintained through mimetic desire: the head dominator is idealized, his position desired. So long as one tastes domination, one is on the right track, in association with others.
It is not like these structures don't exist with the far left, but the far left is often more occupied with smoothing out the contours of domination, or at least propelling the oppressed to a dominant position as a body. As always, stress and strain, and the ebb and flow of power can modulate these tendencies, but as a general distinction, this seems to hold up.
If his movement were to lose steam, whether through success or defeat, then the real cannibalization would begin. This happened in stages with the Nazis, and its effects radiated outward in all directions from the movement, affecting the body politic. Domination started with marginalized groups that were unpopular with the general public, and then widened to subsume more and more target groups, splitting those groups into finer divisions before turning into the party itself. The Nazi movement was manipulated as a machine by its superiors, switching various departments out from the levers of power, or otherwise pitting them against each other, so that the machine was always accumulating power.
The chief resource then that feeds Trump's movement is resent, a resent upon being dominated, and a desire to respond in kind with domination. Until there is a shortage of this type of resent, he will continue to consolidate power. At the least, others will rise after him.
