[chimprich]

> There's a lot not to like about Donald Trump, but for one thing he is an outsider to the established system

Or from another perspective a billionaire managed to get elected through spending enormous amounts of cash on a huge publicity machine that imprinted a simplistic and repetitive message of being an outsider on large numbers of people as if that in itself is a positive quality. /Serial killers/ are outsiders.

[zimpenfish]

To be fair, he didn't spend an enormous amount of cash -relative to other political campaigns-. Didn't need to because he got a lot of free advertising from the media (eg. his fake-birther/really-his-hotel announcement that got wide coverage.)

[aniforprez]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...

A billion dollars. Less than what Hillary spent sure but it's not as if he coasted into Presidency by spending a few nickels. Even relative to Hillary's ENORMOUS sum this is no small amount

[hueving]

He spent less than Clinton, no?