Trump as an individual doesn't seem to have quite what it takes to bring his terrifying worldview into full coherence, and to bring it into full fruition. To attempt to read his central desires, it appears that he still does have an admiration for that old establishment; he genuinely does want to be accepted and respected in this faltering modernist and internationalist order.
And at the same time, he surrounds himself with true believers and zealots, and knee jerk reactionaries who are less able to contain their intentions to burn everything down, partially because it is the way forward to political power, and it is compatible with his own nature. This leads to a confused, sporadic, and spurious quality to his actions. Trump wants to burn just enough down to be accepted into a preserved and continuous establishment.
For that reason he is a terribly effective bridge. This society's immune system - in its own feeble way - can still fight off a proportion of the fringe reactionaries if they come at too steep of a transitional gradient; that is, if they reveal their hand too quickly to a society not yet completely terrorized, or acclimated to unapologetic and unconcealed brutality.
But the immune system is powerless to fight off those reactionaries that are steadily pulled in by the society's own collective desires. There are less resources - less energy - available to build up internal resistance to the drives which have motivated the system in its current form from the beginning. In particular, that whole galaxy of material desires and ambitions which continuously evokes and calls forth capital, which, with its owns desires of endless accumulation, furthers the dispossession and destruction of those large swathes of excluded humanity, while assimilating those peoples of utility into its specialized branches governed by a softened but hardening patriarchal and class-based system.
It is this set of desires, which appears diffuse at first glance, but which coheres enough to suppress those leftist alternatives and then which takes up those reactionary elements required to sustain the system and protect capital, and which quietly and steadily take root underneath the bluster of perpetual scandal.
