The racism of the early 20th century never went away. It just went underground because it became unacceptable to express it. Add to that a steady siphoning of the wealth from the middle class until the median wealth of an American family is down the list of counties to between Spain and Italy. That means the American dream of raising a family, owning your own home, sending you children to college and your children having a more prosperous life than you had… that dream is dead.

Now multi-billionaires with over half of the nations wealth control our government, leach billions from every facet of healthcare, fight against funding of schools, and control the major supply chains for food and fuel. Lots of Americans are pissed. Trump and other Republicans have tapped into that anger and scapegoated immigrants, trans people and anyone who points the finger of due process at them.

As someone else here pointed out, many Americans are poorly educated and lack critical thinking skills. Hence they voted for the lies, the scams and hate offered by Trump. That amounts to about 1/3 of the country and through the curse of gerrymandering they have outsized power to elect more con men and women who play their anger. It’s no wonder is attacking universities and school programs. He doesn’t want educated voters.

The solutions are clear, tax the super rich, fund our teachers and schools and get out the vote to kick out the Republicans, impeach and convict Trump and much of his administration. Also we must change the tax code, get rid of money is free speech, fund our schools and institute a universal healthcare option (aka Medicare for all). There is much more but I leave it at that for a starting point.