From October 2016, still timely, tho details vary:
It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over https://medium.com/@Elamika/it-aint-over-till-it-s-over-65d14615af4

The seesaw of hope and fear-infused incredulity is characteristic of this campaign, as Democrats, liberals, and anti-Trumpists continue to be perplexed by the man’s unsinkability in light of his glaring, and proven daily, lack of competence and character, and...

...a series of scandals revealing just how unsuitable he is for this job or any other involving power over human and other sentient beings.

Obviously, this ain’t over until the Orange Menace skulks off the stage raving about rigged election and nasty media, to plot his revenge and comeback in the shiny bowels of his gilded cage.

And even then it won’t be over.

That’s because Trump/ism is a symptom of a larger disorder that is destroying our country and the world; and unless we address it, our downward spiral of self-destruction will continue to its unthinkable but predictable finish.

It is apparent, or should be, that Trump has been chosen by American voters not in spite of his character defect, but because of it. His pathology makes him inherently destructive, and destruction is what his supporters (...) want.

Pathological leaders, who share the same character defect, that of narcissistic psychopathy / malignant narcissism, are elected (...) for the specific purpose of inflicting mayhem and destruction under the guise of “law and order” and making their countries “great again.”

Power-hungry narcissistic psychopaths creep up like mushrooms after the rain in places where people are fed up with ineffective and/or corrupt governance, but they are not really selected to fix the problems as much as to annihilate the existing social order and its supporters.

It is not a question of if such a leader will do any damage to the country and its people, but how soon and to what extent.

Any safety precautions characteristic for civilized societies quickly go out the window once a narcissistic psychopath assumes the reigns of ultimate power, aided & abetted by his eager sycophants and those who are simply afraid of him. Which is exactly what his supporters want.

They desire him to avenge their narcissistic wounds, mostly by (mis)directing the collective rage toward The Others who become scapegoats for the their anger and pain; and to upend / destroy political structures as a way of revenge for their misery.

Interestingly — and we really should pay attention to this, but of course we won’t — the number of these pathological leaders appears to have been increasing since the Cold War, just as admiration for Hitler and strongmen like him continues to grow around the world.

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A horrible fact of life and one we loathe to acknowledge is that the wounds inflicted by these leaders never truly heal; in many instances they become chronic and as seemingly incurable as the defective characters of the “inflictors.”

Yes, it can happen here.

If it could happen in the heart of the civilized, post-Nazi, post-Communist late 20th century Europe, it can happen anywhere.

It’s just a matter of time and our complicity, willful and not.

(For more, see the full article.)