Hillary was a hilariously unpopular candidate, and the GOP had spent literal decades raking muck about her and preparing for a presidential campaign against her.
Trump had much better control of his (very limited) faculties at that point, allowing him to do a slightly better job of seeming coherent.
Trump was a newcomer to politics, and many simply thought he was a joke - he wasn't taken seriously.
Many people suspected he was performing, and would "pivot" to a less outrageous...everything if elected.
The extreme right had spent decades worming their way into the party, displacing the simply evil members in a race to the extremes.
Polls treated Trump as a joke, giving him such slim odds that Clinton seemed more inevitable than Thanos.
That all combined to create a perfect storm - Democrats were very unmotivated and complacent, and the crazies saw a chance to draw blood.
Sure sure I can understand all of that, but here's my issue and frankly the elephant in the room. Can people not tell he's a giant dumbass and just an overall terrible human being?
I think many left-leaning people live in a bubble and don't understand the selfishness and nastiness that drives America. We look down on the uneducated and hateful like they're living in a shittier parallel system and have nothing to do with us. But they're the ones making sure there's gas for you to buy at the gas station. They're shipping eggs to your supermarket. They're making sure the power stays on. And they're doing it entirely for themselves, which is how the system is designed. They like him.
Well, yeah. He gives them the illusion of value, he plays to their sense of being the secretly special portion of the populace that actually knows better and just seem mediocre or below average because society is so messed up. It's pure ego, and its apparently more addictive than cocaine.
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u/failed_novelty 11h ago
It makes almost perfect sense, actually.
Hillary was a hilariously unpopular candidate, and the GOP had spent literal decades raking muck about her and preparing for a presidential campaign against her.
Trump had much better control of his (very limited) faculties at that point, allowing him to do a slightly better job of seeming coherent.
Trump was a newcomer to politics, and many simply thought he was a joke - he wasn't taken seriously.
Many people suspected he was performing, and would "pivot" to a less outrageous...everything if elected.
The extreme right had spent decades worming their way into the party, displacing the simply evil members in a race to the extremes.
Polls treated Trump as a joke, giving him such slim odds that Clinton seemed more inevitable than Thanos.
That all combined to create a perfect storm - Democrats were very unmotivated and complacent, and the crazies saw a chance to draw blood.