Rapid Social Change and Deviance

Trump must be removed from office, peacefully and constitutionally, as soon as possible. But that won't solve the problem.

The problem is that the folks who voted for him - and maybe more - will vote for a more accomplished, polished, politically-savvy Trump.

And the reason is not that they are bad people. (Some no doubt, like the rest of us, are - it would be miraculous if none were.)

The reason is that the processes of globalism, information technology, and - soon, robotics - are  dividing city folks from rural folks, globalists from nationalists, the rich from the poor (at the expense of the shrinking middle class) and causing the "losers" in those battles to feel their culture (that is, their world, their reality) is under siege and to feel  culturally, socially, and economically left behind and alienated.

FERTILE GROUND FOR FASCISM AND OTHER EXTREMIST IDEOLOGIES.

"Merton defines culture as an "organized set of normative values governing behavior which is common to members of a designated society or group". Social structures are the "organized set of social relationships in which members of the society or group are variously implicated".[18] Anomie, the state of normlessness, arises when there is "an acute disjunction between the cultural norms and goals and the socially structured capacities of members of the group to act in accord with them".[18] In his theory, Merton links anomie with deviance and argues that the discontinuity between culture and structure have the dysfunctional consequence of leading to deviance within society.[19]"

Robert K. Merton (Theory of Deviance)