Among the best article explaining the Trump supporter mindset:
sociologist explain capitol riot: "The population of U.S. Citizens who’ve lost the most power in the past 40 years, who aren’t competing well to get into college or get high paying jobs, whose marital prospects have dimmed, and who are outraged, are those I believe were most likely to be in on the attack."
Bart Bonikowski, a professor of sociology at N.Y.U., was forthright: Ethnonationalist Trump supporters want to return to a past when white men saw themselves as the core of America and minorities and women “knew their place.”