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Originally Posted by REDVAN
Fair enough, I agree and I wasn't careful/correct in my previous posts. I don't mean that Trump is a better politician than Hillary (or some other GOP nominees whom he out-campaigned). That is clearly not true. He was a great campaigner, and he continues to be. But he is not a great politician at this time.
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He won because he's a celebrity. Any random joe millionaire who hadn't been in the public eye for the last 30 years, with his platform, would've been laughed out of the race 2 months in.
Trump is a celebrity, Trump is a brand, Trump is a name. He won because he's recognizable as much as anything else. He's convinced people that he's a Great Businessman and he's So Successful and his whole rhetoric played on the idea among poor Americans that The Man is just holding them down and if they could just stop that evil gub'ment, they could be billionaires just like Trump.
He tapped into that, he tapped into racism and fear, and he tapped into the percentage of voters who would check the box for an inanimate paper bag if it had (R) next to its name. It was a perfect storm for him. A non-celebrity isn't going to pull out the masses of normally non-voting Americans that Trump did. (This is something I definitely saw, plenty of people I know who never bothered to vote before voted Trump because he's not a politician and tells it like it is!)