What Trump is saying, not that it is in any way subtle, is that Hillary is at the center of a conspiracy by as he put it in his Cleveland address, “globalists” and “a group of censors, critics, and cynics” to drag America down.

It’s his updating of what a German historian of the post-World War I period and the Stab in the Back myth described as the reactionary construction of events: “A morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, and ruthless persecution of the honest ‘national opposition.’”

That sounds pretty familiar to anyone who listens to the Trump speeches which have oddly been featured on cable news, despite the fact that he is a rambling speaker with a poor voice, or watches Fox News, doesn’t it?