During his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump offered a litany of malevolent actors that could be blamed for America’s “moment of crisis”: “government incompetence” and “leaders who fail their citizens,” an Obama administration that has “failed them at every level,” companies that outsource jobs, “horrible and unfair trade deals,” China and other “countries that cheat,” and the “elites in media, and politics, who will say anything to keep a rigged system in place.” The real-estate mogul is running, he insists, “so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves.”