Trump is a typical populist in that he unites by dividing... That is, he unites the angry and uneducated old, white conservatives by dividing them from everyone else... Mexicans, Muslims, Liberals, probably blacks sooner or later. Then he postures as the only one who will sort all the bad guys out.. It's textbook populism, and I suspect someone's being researching this for him. Divide and conquer.
It's a style of demagoguery that is as old as the hills.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.