Reading the excellent short novel  The Kaiser's Last Kiss by Alan Judd, in which the exiled monarch meets his Nazi successors, the Kaiser is given a speech that could apply very well not only to Trump and Bannon etc., but to most Republicans at this point:'

"Do you not see that these men are incomplete? They are shells with undeveloped souls rattling around inside. They will betray anything and everything because they believe only in themselves, but know not themselves. They are madmen. And that is why they do not know what other people are, which is why they can do terrible things and not see why it matters. And so they cannot see how completely they, in turn, will be destroyed, our nation with them. They are men of dreams who lead us sleepwalking into a nightmare."