What’s the legacy of his supporters? How will history remember those who enabled and cheered him on? My guess is not kindly.
Let’s play “Who’s the Biggest Idiot”. The people that lack the intelligence to know they are being deceived or the people that were willing to be deceived. The second group gets my vote. But I doubt the history books will spend much time on that, the focus will be on the people who pulled the strings. As a young naive student I believed propaganda was something government did to people when in reality it is something they do to themselves.