What I find fascinating about the response to the healthcare CEO’s murder is that there’s substantial sympathy for the killer, across the political spectrum, which suggests that both left and right recognize that health insurance companies are immoral/evil/should-be-illegal, but there’s not equivalent support for the one actual solution to the problem, socialized medicine. Americans, especially conservatives, have been brainwashed so badly that even when they recognize a problem, they can’t recognize the obvious solution - which means all they can do is be mad about it and lash out. The archetype of the “vigilante hero” who enacts simple solutions is so ingrained in the culture’s fiction, that becomes appealing in reality, but it leaves the problem entirely untouched. And I think that’s part of Trump’s appeal - people see him, perversely, as a vigilante hero, but instead of solving the problem, he actually makes it worse (which just makes people more angry and in turn more likely to vote for Trump or other authoritarians posing as populists).