Thanks for your "expert" analysis

I think that I'll go with the professionals instead:

Dr. Justin Frank, psychiatrist at GWU, and author of "Trump on the Couch"

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561477/trump-on-the-couch-by-justin-a-frank-md/9780735220324

A worrisome escalation of Trump’s cognitive limitations was heard in his inability to follow the thread of a conversation, as when he jumped from getting a card for Melania’s birthday to talking about Macron’s wife to talking about Iran — all in a span of three sentences. He said things that just don’t make sense, like there is “a horrible group of deep-seated people” out to get him.

The paranoid portrayal of himself as victim continued in a similar manner. “It’s a witch hunt,” Trump said, “and they know that. … I would give myself an A-plus. Nobody has done what I’ve been able to do and I did it despite the fact that I have a phony cloud over my head that doesn’t exist.”

https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/25/donald-trump-applied-psychoanalysis-diagnosis/

From an expert on authoritarians about Republicans 

“He’s been forecasting that the ‘deep state’ is out to get him, and there’s a way in which the narrative of the whistleblower can come to confirm all of that for his followers,” said historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism at New York University.

This shared sense of persecution is one reason so many Republican officeholders and conservative media personalities are defending the president — at least for now — against allegations that he abused the power of his office for personal political gain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/staring-down-impeachment-trump-sees-himself-as-a-victim-of-historic-proportions/2019/09/28/815fbbea-e14c-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html

Republicans never miss a chance to mishandle things when it comes to issues of race. Trump is a white nationalist. He said that Obama was not born in the United States. He told women of color to go back to where they came from. He calls black athletes SOBs. He evoked imagery of white victimhood by saying Biden kissed Obama's gluteus maximus. When Republicans say "both sides do it" under these circumstances, it energizes a significant portion of the Democratic base.

Trump said it: This is the big one for a few reasons. One is that Trump is president of the United States, so his words carry more weight than those of a member of Congress. He’s also white, and the majority of lynching victims were black. For the most powerful (white) person in the world right now to compare his plight of an impeachment inquiry, where lawmakers are following very real evidence, to the gruesome, death-by-torture mob mentality that claimed the lives of thousands of powerless black men was especially dissonant. It was Trump’s extreme victimhood on display, and it’s possible he truly believes he has been wronged on a par with lynching victims, writes The Fix’s Eugene Scott.

But perhaps the most notable reason Trump’s lynching comments drew a major outcry was because the president no longer gets the benefit of the doubt that he is innocently using offensive language. He has a history of making racially inflammatory and even outright racist statements. Demonizing people of color and stereotyping black communities have been part of his campaign since day one. He also has a well-documented lack of empathy for people who are struggling.

“It’s not just: 'Oh, a Republican said it so therefore it’s 10 times worse,” Steele said. “No, if anybody days it, it shows a lack of appreciation of history and a lack of sensitive to how it impacts African Americans. Now having said that, what makes it much more difficult for someone like Trump is his own history when it comes to this type of language and the attitude regarding race. And so he’s given less quarter, less room to make that mistake, because his history is long and deep on the subject, going back to the Central Park Five."

“Yes, I said those words, but context matters,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) told Rieger. "There is a difference when that word is used by someone of my experience and perspective, whose relatives were the targets of lynch mobs, compared to a president who has dog-whistled to white nationalists and peddled racism,” Meeks said. “This is the birther president, who called African nations s---holes and urban cities infested. Those he called ‘very fine people’ in Charlottesville were the kind of people who lynched those who looked like me. So, yes — there are certain words I am more at liberty to invoke than Donald J. Trump.”

Combine all this, and it’s hard to believe that Trump did not mean to draw a direct contrast between what’s happening to him now and the real lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Especially when one of his top supporters in Congress, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), clarified that for Trump, this is “a lynching in every sense of the word.”

Trump just doesn’t get the credit afforded other politicians that he was using language derived from political discourse rather than deliberately invoking America’s racist past.