Sad that such attitude exists in our country, in our culture. But in a population of hundreds of millions, we can expect 6 sigma deviations.
Problem is, Trump won the election, AFTER the embarrassment of his first four year term four years earlier.
So while discomforting, this is more than merely a "lunatic fringe". This is a "lunatic" segment of the electorate powerful enough not merely to re-elect Trump, but to plunge
the United States into Constitutional crisis (Garcia / El Salvador) and humanity into an economic crisis with Trump's global trade war.