Allow me to start off by mentioning that Trump beat Hillary the very same way he beat all of the other Repubs that were in the running. Hillary is in very distinguished company with her loss to Trump.
Trump won his primary and the general by blustering and lying a whole lot more and at a level that his competition wouldn't dare go to. He made promises any sane person knew was impossible to keep, like making Mexico pay for his (their) wall. He got/gets away with his incessant lying because he's convinced enough voters/supporters that his lying, his childish assaults against his competition/enemies, his acrimonious sarcastically laced innuendo, (birtherism anyone?) his adulterous lifestyle, his financial difficulties and his many financial dealings with the Russians were things that should be totally ignored in favor of the false promises he made and the hate/fear he cultivated in those who were/are strangely attracted to such vapid rhetoric.
He surely didn't run on policy, or factual reasoning where any of his competitors would eat him up alive. He ran on stirring the emotions of a demographic, making them angry, making them wanting to look for and then hang all of their grievances on the victim of Trump's choosing. He ran a campaign that involved hate and fear, jingoisms and absolutely not on anything of substance that could
actually benefit the middle class and the poor, but rather what he could actually get away with lying about. And since he can now get away with lying about anything and everything he can think of there's no limit to what he can get away with as far as what his base will allow him to. For example, he's convinced his base that Putin of all people "is a fine man".
I mean, all anybody has to do is compare those many grandiose promises he made to the working class and what he's actually done for them in a positive meaningful way and then compare that with those bountiful money grabbing tax cuts and write-offs he's given himself and his fellow aristocrats from the donor class.
I understand that you're committed to Trump and I don't personally hold that against anyone who does. I have close friends that support Trump for a single reason or another but I just can't ignore, as they do, the many damaging things Trump has already done to the nation and how he has failed to make good on those promises he made to the working class that involved improving in any meaningful and lasting way their quality of life and their prospects for a better future for themselves.
What he has given his supporters for the most part has nothing of what I just previously mentioned, but very much so in the way of those many emotionally driven issues that he keeps front and center in their minds such as stopping those murderous rapist brown illegals from crossing our borders, tacitly supporting the racists, Nazi's and KKK groups that and most of all, defending the nation against those evil godless Democrats who would freely open our borders "like Obama did" to any and all of those "murderous latino gang members that rape and terrorize Americans" any time they wish.
edit - apologies for stringing this post out - I had the time and the notion to do it so.....
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