Everybody, including him, knows it’s a shitfest. That’s the joke. As much as you might dislike him, most people agree that he’s funny. That’s what makes him so appealing to “everyday” Americans (whatever that fucking means).
It mostly means the lowest information voters. The ones who tend to live in myopic bubbles of their own selfish interest. They don’t understand government or complex systems like economies. They just go off of their “common sense” intuition which is easily influenced by the basic surface level arguments like Trump makes. They are the ones politicians pander to most in elections because they can be swayed easily and are least likely to pay close attention to the policy outcomes.
Everybody, including him, knows it’s a shitfest. That’s the joke. As much as you might dislike him, most people agree that he’s funny. That’s what makes him so appealing to “everyday” Americans (whatever that fucking means).
It mostly means the lowest information voters. The ones who tend to live in myopic bubbles of their own selfish interest. They don’t understand government or complex systems like economies. They just go off of their “common sense” intuition which is easily influenced by the basic surface level arguments like Trump makes. They are the ones politicians pander to most in elections because they can be swayed easily and are least likely to pay close attention to the policy outcomes.
No, no, this is Donald Trump. He absolutely thinks he’s never done anything wrong in his life.
I’ll bet not all of them were laughing with him, but rather at him.