So if you want to understand the Vietnamese American community, this picture says it all. Jingoistic, militaristic, defiantly obnoxious support of authoritarianism that is rooted in South Vietnamese anticommunist nationalism, w/some feminist fascism that goes back to Madame Nhu. https://twitter.com/trinhhoivoice/status/1330712993449984000

So much to say here. Let's connect the dots. Today was the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. This was terrible, but can we remember that he approved a coup by South Vietnamese generals that led to the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother

Ngo Dinh Nhu?

The brothers were authoritarians, but Ngo Dinh Diem was installed by the Americans as their handpicked man. The Americans weren’t upset with his authoritarianism. The generals who replaced him weren’t genuinely democratic either. NDD was just a little too

authoritarian AND horror of horrors, was apparently willing to talk with the communists. He was assassinated because he was too independent for American tastes.
Madame Nhu was married to Ngo Dinh Nhu and she was SVN's "First Lady." She was an authoritarian just like her husband

and brother-in-law. When Thich Quang Duc immolated himself in 1963, she said that his sacrifice was manipulative because he killed himself with "imported gasoline" (it's on video ) and she told the New York Times that

"I would clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show, for one cannot be responsible for the madness of others" ( https://www.theguardian.com/.../apr/26/madame-nhu-obituary). She was definitely a feminist who believed in empowering women, but also turned that feminism into fascist support for nationalism.

Fascism loves spectacles, and this was manifest in the SVN regime's love for uniforms and flags. This was carried on to the United States by refugees. I've attended several "Black April" commemorations at the Vietnam War Memorial in Little Saigon, Orange County, and it is

always a fashion show of men AND women dressed in a variety of military uniforms and draped in flags (I refuse to use the term "Black April" without quotation marks because it is part of this authoritarian nationalism, draped in feel-good nostalgia, that is also dependent on

racism; Vietnamese people would never even think of calling this anniversary of April 30th "White April," even though white is the color of mourning, because it's beyond their capacity, or else they are too afraid to offend white people; I'm not sure which, or maybe it's both).

This is why, today, Vietnamese Trump supporters love wearing uniforms, waving flags, and adorning themselves in flags. Including women. Women will either wear the traditional ao dai, often in South Vietnamese colors of red and yellow, or in American flag versions, or will wear,

like this woman, a military uniform. South Vietnamese refugee nationalism, soaked in nostalgia for a lost country, which was in fact a military dictatorship dressed up as a democracy, finds an easy fit with Make America Great Again nostalgia, which is in fact not democratic

at all but which harkens back to a grand old time in the 19th century when whites were powerful and ruled by violence and people of color were being forcibly suppressed (Jim Crow for Blacks, reservations for Natives, dispossession and occupation for Mexicans, and the

Chinese Exclusion Law for Chinese).
That the majority of Vietnamese Americans support Donald Trump should, in the end, be no surprise at all. They were always comfortable with authoritarianism and fascism, and the racism that goes along with it, from the very beginning.
P.S.

I forgot to mention corruption. South Viet Nam was totally corrupt, although that wasn't necessarily the fault of the Vietnamese people. The USA came in and told SVN how to fight the war and supported the SVN regime with tons of money and goods and soldiers. All that money,

combined with poorly paid troops and officers, led to vast corruption. The South Vietnamese people, living in an artificial economy supported and created by the USA, learned to survive by cheating the system, which they saw happening at the top and at every level of society.

When they come to the USA, they use those hard-earned survival skills to work the system of benefits. Everybody knows somebody who has taken welfare or food stamps while being paid in a cash job. I don't blame them. That's survival and it's smart to exploit the system,

if that's how you got through a war.
But to exploit the system, reap welfare and other benefits, and then blame the liberals for supposedly bringing in socialism--that's the fascistic side of these Vietnamese war survivors coming through.