Sexual predators and opportunistic entourages crawl through Hollywood, waiting to use and abuse promising young talent and turn their labors for a profit. The crooked city blackballed women who sought safety from the rapists running top production and talent agencies while celebrating and protecting every monster from Kevin Spacey to Harvey Weinstein. It’s the kind of city that turned Donald Trump from a tabloid sideshow to media superstar to president of the United States.

Trump understood the nature of the city that built him. It’s why he knew how to weaponize historically unifying elements of American culture such as the NFL into winning issues for conservatives and how to position himself as backlash to an elite that’s been increasingly exposed by everything from the college admissions fraud crackdown to the #MeToo movement. (If you still believe this harmed Trump more than his adversaries in the Democratic Party and Hollywood, I have some news for you.)