Jester,

The 'Fuhrer' line made me lol. I don't pretend to know why people support Trump - unless we really are a nation of idiots. But the real Fuhrer rose to power because Germany was an economic wasteland at the time. And, with his ultra-nationalism, which had a huge appeal in a country that felt it had been humiliated by the WWI victors, and then suffered tremenously by the Depression, one could say that what he was saying was "Let's make Germany great again." Unlike Trump, he really delivered on that promise, until he declared war on the rest of the world, which wasn't such a great idea after all.

I think there might be corollary there with Trump, perhaps with segments of society that are tired of politician's promises which disappear once they've got your vote. A game of 'three card Monte' in which you're never going to find the Queesn. Along with wishful/magical thinking that here's someone who can make simple sense of complex factors they can't comprehend, but they know they're tired of being rooked around. Plus, perhaps, this idea that since Trump isn't a 'politician', and does need to sell his soul to big money donors, that he  might really be 'a man of the people.'  An area where Hilary seems to be flat-out pandering, 'stronger together' really just means more three card Monte. I dunno. That's the best I can make of it.

(BTW, there's a really funny routine by Norm McDonald on Letterman, where he says, "You know, the more I learn about this Hitler guy, the more I don't care for him.")

In other news, I don't understand why on a day when the market is losing its shirt, CIEN is also losing its pants as well. Oil's good one day, a disaster the next. Three card Monte?