Consider a prehistoric tribe. The tribe is held together by mutual helping each other, mutual exchange but there is also another mechanism that holds the tribe together.

The cheater detection mechanism.

If a member of a tribe is found to be cheating (e.g. secretly taking more food then he is allowed) then the cheater detection mechanism comes into action with ruthless effect. The miscreant member will probably be brutally killed or ostracised (which will lead to death).

In 2008 there was the financial crisis and the banks were bailed out. Many people's cheater detection mechanism went into overdrive and some are still there.

They want to burn everything down, make the elites suffer.

Trump is just a tool to do the burning, they don't care what he says, as long as he burns the system to the ground, that's all they want.

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