In my column yesterday, I laid out the Trump lexicon — the words, phrases, and concepts of Trump’s fervent fans. I did not present an unabridged lexicon, however. There’s more.

As Trump fans have reminded me, there’s “No one reads you anymore! NR is a dying rag!”

Where would they pick up talk like that? One thing I have noticed about Trump fans — the hard core of them — is that they are very much like their leader: in style, in tone.

When NR came out against Trump last January, Trump attacked us as a “dying paper” — over and over. Was he using “paper” in the British sense? (Over there, magazines, as well as newspapers, are “papers.”) Or was he unsure what NR was?

Probably he knew, because he mentioned WFB, saying that Bill would be “ashamed” of us. Unfortunately for Trump, Bill wrote about him — pretty honestly. (“Demagogue,” “narcissist,” etc. The past year has not seen a New Donald.)

Recently, CNN was critical of Trump, so Trump pointed out, on Twitter, that Fox has much higher ratings than CNN.

Never is there any “This is why you’re wrong.” Never is there any real argument. There is no thinking. Most of the time, Trump and his fans emit a long roar of anger, hatred, or resentment. Trumpism is a form of anti-thought, where thinking is suspect, at best.

Remember what recruiters for Trump University were instructed to do: sell “feelings,” not “solutions.”

There is a great distance between Trumpism and conservatism. In the conservative world, for example, you’re required to think. You have to justify your views, and question them. You can’t get away with snarling or sneering like a bully.

When Trump didn’t like Michelle Malkin’s criticism of him, he said she was a “loser” who was “born stupid.” Evidently, Trump and Trumpites figure that’s what you do. Others have to do better.

In the 1990s, a lot of us blamed President Clinton for coarsening the culture. For dragging standards down. He was blasé about this. He said that a president shouldn’t be “on a pedestal” and that he had “demystified” the presidency.

Leadership matters. All over the country now, Trump has imitators. And that is no good for America.

How can conservatives support and enable Trump, especially those who have always emphasized the importance of character in our public life?

Back to the specific issue of Trump, Trumpites, and NR: It could be that we have 100 readers or 100 million. It could be that CNN has 100 viewers or 100 million. What does that have to do with the truth or falsity of a thing? The goodness or badness of it? The worth of it? Truth is not a popularity contest.

Trump talks incessantly of “winning” and “losing” and the “strong” over the “weak.” There’s a phrase we were all taught in kindergarten — although some might have missed it: “Might doesn’t make right.”

In my piece yesterday, I dealt with a good chunk of the Trumpian vocab: “globalist,” “open borders,” “GOPe,” “donor class,” etc. And I received a note from a friend of mine who grew up in the Soviet Union. Today, he is an American, as patriotic as any.

He wrote,

When I was a kid, I frequently heard the term “lackeys” in reference to opponents of the Soviet government. As we know, the terms “kulak”, “saboteur,” and “enemy of the people” were invented by Stalin in order to crush his perceived enemies and spread terror. Defining one’s enemy via one’s own terminology, and forcing that worldview on the rest of the society, is perhaps as old as mankind itself.

Yes, yes. When a Trumpite mindlessly tags you as a “globalist,” he might as well be saying “kulak.” Of course, in the USSR, the consequences were deadly. Here, however, we have classical-liberal values such as pluralism and toleration.

Right? Right.