Yup, I'm still struggling after a decade of trying to see how people embrace such an obvious con man. I get he has done a splendid job marketing himself as "The Anti Status Quo Guy" so anyone with a grudge or who feels powerless seems to be drawn to him. But he is just so obviously out to screw others over to benefit himself. I'll never get it, I guess
I think his appeal was he offered something different from the usual career politician offering. However he's proven that he's no different and hasn't really done anything to better American Citizens lives and now people are also tired of what made him "different".
The people were fucked in 2008 and most of the rural white middle class never recovered. They were ready to tear the whole system down and then Trump walks in and promises this. He was rude and irreverent and didn't give a fuck.
It was a grift from the start, he expected to lose and then use his popularity to launch a new Trump business.
He won in 2016 and how no idea what to do.
After 2020, a group of deep state conservatives figured out how to use him to enacted their rebellion to destroy the "liberal" state. This was a long term plan, starting in the 1980s.
It has never been just Trump. It has been anger from a group of people and a coordinated operation to destroy The USA, by the Heritage fund and allies.
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u/pyramidalembargo 8h ago
His appeal has always bewildered me.
When they look, they see a Messiah.
When I look, I see an ugly, orange old man who yells and screams, cusses, and shits his pants.
I know how a color blind person must feel.