The answer to how Trump has succeeded is really simple: He lies nonstop, and lying works. Sure, there are other factors in play—he tapped into and intensified a certain strain of profound proletarian resentment of liberal elites, and … well, that’s about it. But mostly, it’s the lies.
…And, to reiterate, Trump tells many such lies a day. He talks to the press two or three times a day most days, which probably adds up to what, 45 minutes, an hour? Spitballing it at one lie every two minutes, which may well be low, that’s around 25 factual lies a day.
Dumb people don’t know they are dumb… That’s the problem. None of these people vote for these grifters because they think they “don’t know anything like me!”
They vote because they are easily conned by bullshit artist selling easy solution to complex problems. And they all think they are PhDs because they “get it” and aren’t sheep like the rest of the world! They have the real truth!
These morons vote for Trump because they think he IS intelligent.
And they can’t tell the difference between people who know their shit, and people who are bullshitting.
We saw that going back to Al Gore and the “Lockbox” comments.