I have not ever seen a coalition that was homogeneous

[Mike 03]

2. I've been thinking about this too, especially after reading "Unholy" by

Sarah Posner. She writes in that book about how the Alt Right, the White Supremacists and the Christian Nationalists found common ground to coalesce around Trump, with a little prodding from far right billionaires and foreign interlopers in Russia, Hungary and other Eastern European countries who would love to see our Democracy collapse.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat points out in her new book Strongmen that it is more difficult to break up a coalition when it is united around a single "personalist authoritarian" (unless, of course, his power collapses). That means it is gathered around a charismatic leader rather than policy, ideology or principle.

But I strongly agree we should look for weak spots. One, according to Sarah Posner, is U.S. foreign policy with respect to Israel. I can't think of a way to 'exploit' that weakness without really playing with fire, though.