Why is Trump Trump?

[AverageOldGuy]

The 1993 movie “Tombstone” re-tells for the xxxth time the tale of Tombstone, Arizona, the Earp family, their friend “Doc” Holliday, and local characters both native and recent arrivals.

The main conflict is between the Earp family – who have been drawn into being the local law enforcement – and the “Cowboys,” a group of locals whose main activity is cattle rustling.

One of the principal Cowboys is “Johnny Ringo.” John Peters Ringo (1850 – 1882) had a long history of criminal activity, winding up in Tombstone on the side of the “Cowboys” in the ongoing vendetta between them and the Earps.

Ringo and “Doc” Holliday did, in fact, have a number of encounters, each of which was stopped before it turned too violent.

In “Tombstone” (the movie) is this exchange between Wyatt Earp and Holliday.

Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
Wyatt Earp: What does he need?
Doc Holliday: Revenge.
Wyatt Earp: For what?
Doc Holliday: Bein' born.

And there you have it - - - what makes Trump Trump? What makes Stephen Miller Stephen Miller? JD Vance JD Vance? Hegseth Hegseth? . . . . . . ". . . a great big hole, right in the middle of him . . . "