“Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry” and other bogeymen: is Trump’s populism compatible with the rule of law?

Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. . . . Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another. — Hannah Arendt, comments made during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera (1974).