Not saying this is what happened and why investigative journalists didn't uncover all this stuff when he was still just a candidate, but there is a perverse kind of incentive in news media that chases controversy to have a situation where the most controversial person actually ends up in office rather than weeded out by an election. Once in office, a controversial character can generate eye-grabbing headlines for the length of their term, as Trump did, rather than just the length of their campaign.
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"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
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