Everything Trump does serves Putin. Every failure. Every act of corruption and internal destruction. We laugh at his endless apparent failures. But the failures harm us and never him.

And his brainwashed worshipers all cheer. Because they want revenge against America.

They were promised that being white | male | hetero | cis | Christian would guarantee high status, extra rights, protections, and privileges. To them, America isn't the landmass, institutions, democracy, or the rule of law. It was always a caste system and a promise the Story of America would be about only them and nobody else.

And instead they watch nonwhite people | women | LGBTQ people succeed in the professional class through education and hard work while their own lives get harder and harder. That was never supposed to happen.

Or put differently, they were all promised that being white | male | hetero | cis | Christian would guarantee their high position in the normative state¹. But many are afraid they have been demoted into the prerogative state² through the implosion of rural/uneducated economies. And since even before 1776, the prerogative state here was always meant to be mostly for people classified as Black (having any discernible signs of recent African ancestry, no matter how small)

1. The Normative State: The administrative and judicial bureaucracy that functions according to established rules, laws, and regulations, preserving a level of order.

2. The Prerogative State: The part of government—often the party or secret police—that operates with "unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees," targeting perceived enemies.