Actually, pragmatism...
Hitler was able to make scapegoats out of the Jews, Gypsies, et. al. because Germans didn't want to confront the real architects of defeat in WWI and the economic misery that followed... Germany's elite and it's military-industrial complex. So he found scapegoats. And he eventually led his country to disaster.
Now, here's the thing. I used to support George W. Bush. Vote for him twice. And I didn't speak up when he got us into an unnecessary war with Iraq or fumbled the Katrina response so badly that hundreds died. (This incompetence seems QUAINT compared to the level of devastation Trump inflicted.) What turned me on him was when he fucked up the economy in 2008, and I ended up with an underwater mortgage, a busted 401K and a job that paid me less. Shame on me, I should have objected earlier.
Now, I could look at Trump and say his racism doesn't effect me, because I am white, male, straight and pretty close to retirement. But yeah, the misery he inflicted on gays, minorities, the poor, to the cheers of his followers and their misdirected anger.