Well said! In "American Prometheus"--the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the section recounting the vicious McCarthyite witch-hunt against Oppenheimer in the early 50s clearly demonstrates that the roots of Trumpism were already there in the Republican subculture; in fact, Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn, was McCarthy's legal hatchet man--a scurrilous attorney devoid of even a particle of decency or integrity.