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@DethBeard
I've always thought a large part of the appeal (in 2016) was Trump not being a politician, and "shaking up the system".
People feel removed from politics, because they cannot identify with the people that are standing there asking you to vote for them.
When a popular figure from a TV show appears and starts spouting off about things you "care" about (bloody forrins taking all our jobs, etc) it gets people who normally don't vote, out of their arm chairs and into the polling booths
(this reads the same for leaving the EU vote...)
Inexplicable now though, its almost like people got caught up in the hype and voted in Trump in 2016, then paid zero attention for 4 years and then voted for him again because they didn't notice/ care he was a useless Wotsit.