Because their whole system is a circus filled with clowns like him. If this happened in any other country, the president would be fighting for his life.

“Elon knows those voting machines so well!” - Trump on inauguration day.

Well, given our low voter turnouts…

Roughly 1/3 of our population is so stupid and hateful that they would rather have a President that hurts people they don’t like, than uh… anything else.

I feel like a lot of non US people really do not fully comprehend the level of just literal hatred that fuels many Americans, as well as how common it is to be extremely charismatically performative in a massively hypocritical way, in just every aspect of life.

We are a country of adults that read at an average of a 6th grade level, with astonishing levels of religious extremism and cults (compared to other countries with similar levels of economic development), who are aware our society is collapsing, but are largely too stupid to even understand why.

We were sold the lie of American Exceptionalism, were indoctrinated into it as a sort of secular cult, it is now apparent this is/was all a lie, and people are (have been) essentially having a kind of mass psychosis in terms of how they handle this revalation.

Our systems are massively corrupt, they’ve been incrementally corrupting for decades, but the effect has been snowballing.

A few people and groups would pop up from time to time and point this out, and push for a specific, meaningful reform to actually stymie this at a systemic level, and they would be crushed by both corporate and political PR campaigns, but also just a general sense of ‘you are overreacting and hysterical’ in the broad population, that came from that smug security of the American Exceptionalism ethos.

Basically, we are largely a nation of incurious, brutish, overconfident, malignant narcissists, who revel in biased reasoning ortiented toward justifying an already held belief, who are often already taught from a young age to evaluate the world with the irrational magical thinking of religious cults, which normalizes cognitive dissonance and conspiracism, which then leads to the present outcome you correctly find to be so absurd.

mass hysteria/delusion similar to Germany in the 1930s

Sadly it’s a Highly Functional Kleptocracy.

He didn’t get elected, they rigged the election. He won ALL the battleground states? That stretches credulity wildly.

Supposedly there were MILLIONS of people who voted a straight Democratic ticket, but with Trump at the top, and they put him over the top. However, I’ve never met or read any statements from a single one of those alleged voters, not one. Both Dems and MAGAs claim the election was fair & square, so who are these split voters? Where are they? Produce five of them. For that matter, produce just one.

They don’t exist. The election was rigged.

He’s the bestest and brightest america has to offer, he is the the perfect embodiment of what it means to be american. Lazy, tat, stupid, ugly, mean, ignorant, and spiteful. The racism and misogyny aren’t bugs they are features