[Imustaskforhelp]

> I am beginning to think that "The Art of the Deal" was also always fake

To me, the interesting part is that people used to believe it in the first place. Anything that I heard of the guy and his agenda 2025 or whatever it was called had some really weird points which America (and for what its worth, the world, who didn't have any say in the American election but is dragged into it as the prices of my gas station rise)

Was it the silos of internet in an ever-polarizing nation that created the perfect conditions for a trump-esque person to take political power?

I should read more American history but Reagan seems like a similar guy but the only difference seems to be the short-term vs long-term consequences in the damage of Reagan's trickle-onomics (note that Trump's damage is pretty irreparable as well)

[vkou]

Nobody believed it in the first place. If you asked any modern MAGGAT in 2014 what they thought of DJT, they'd probably call him some rich turd from New York, and would not give him the time of day.

Now he is still the exact same man, but to them, he is the second coming.

[hyperman1]

And still more than half of the USA voters believed him better than any other candidate. In fact, a decent chunk responded to his call for an insurgence when his previous presidency ended.

They can't be all total idiots. So what are they? I have never seen a decent deep analysis on why they behave like this. Afaik, they got the worst chances in the existing economy, and decided, as they are hurting anyway, they'll make the other half of the USA also hurt.

Question for every USAian: Someone must have thought deeper about it. Is there a decent book or long form internet article, readable by a more leftist public?