Trumps hate and fear reinforcement is his feature, not a bug, according to the everything we can see.
His followers will do incredible mental gymnastics to make him sound better, or to make those that oppose him seem worse. It's well documented in my mind that when BLM protest were irritating Trump his MAGA followers would drive in from all over to commit violence so they could claim it was BLM.
That's the kind of underhanded domestic terrorism we're having to deal with, but only a minority of Americans acknowledge the scope and intensity of the problem, many just dismissing it entirely, or worse blaming "Antifa" their entirely fictitious mortal enemy.

It shows how degenerate the Republicans have become that they would vote for someone like Trump and think that he is a hero or worse, godlike.

As Fannie Wolfe pointed out when she tweeted: "White evangelicals get abortions in secret, cheat on their spouses, fuck people of the same sex in secret, rape people, abuse their kids, and hate women. Trump is a reflection of their secrets, not some aberration. Stop acting like his base will abandon him "if they only knew."