I keep trying to grapple with Trump's appeal and I just don't get it. Now with mini rant. [View all]

[cali]

I understand that people like having their biases affirmed, but he's such a cartoon figure bad guy. What I just don't get is how people can be drawn to a braggart bloviator who has a history of not supporting the crap that he's currently gushing. And who has a shady history in business, supposedly his strong suit.

Wingers are constantly spewing contempt about the celebrity culture, and really, this guy's notoriety is all about his celebrity. I confess, I never saw Reagan's appeal either. He just seemed like a stupid, smarmy vitalis sales rep, but put him alongside der Trumpenfuhrer, and he looks like a statesman.

I don't lean toward overestimating the voting public at large, and certainly not republican voters, but this is fucking ridiculous.


Edit: having read many of the responses, I want to add that although I know a lot of what you are saying is on point, and I get those explanations, intellectually, on a gut level, he's just such an unappealing figure. Or to put it bluntly,he's repulsive. Grotesque. Revolting. And that's before he opens his mouth to get on with his incessant, annoying bragging. And if he's not plain old stupid, he does a masterful impression. I do not see his much vaunted charisma. More like anti-charisma.

Did I mention that I find him repulsive? Oh, and tacky on a mega level.