The stupid, insecure and ignorant tend to be the most racist and sexist.

I don't think, the donald, has a post graduate degree. Lies, all lies, about a Wharton MBA.

He was angry at the people they were angry at, so he validated them - even though he's not good at all at what he does, especially when he's working in government. He's not really competent, no matter how long they have admired him, and think he has always been working for them - and that those "others" are the ones responsible for them not getting what has been promised to white men for decades- to have at least the same income that their dads had, back in the "golden age" of white male employment. He promises to bring that back.

He fomented and harnessed white male rage (along with the women who aligned themselves with angry white men) on the right, and convinced them that he could deliver the world they pictured.

They will never think otherwise, no matter how many facts come out that he isn't really the savior that he believes himself to be.

Trump promised poorly educated White men a bygone era when they could barely get out of high school, but earn a middleclass salary and retire relatively secure. There were White women's during that period that aspired for the life of just being a housewife, grocery shopping, cleaning, caring for the kids, cooking, some of those women passed that on to their daughters. Trump promised them an era when the USA had very few Brown people or Asians and Blacks were not allowed to truly compete for the higher paying jobs, settling for manual labor instead. Trump promised them a time when the USA was really the one of the few countries in the world whose landscape had not been ripped to pieces by a world war, and where the USA dominated the few like Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, Central and South America that were still intact. He promised them a time when India was a feudal country that warred a lot with it's neighbors and China was a isolationist, nuclear armed feudal country with no economy to speak of. Trump promised them a world that can't possibly ever exist again.

Deleting because dupes earlier post. Note to self: read thread, then post.

I find it hard to believe that those middle westerners in the Red States even watched "The Apprentice" so don't tell me they were "fans" of his old show.

I grew up in the Midwest and I know how much they hate the Noo Yawk accent and they look down on anybody from New York. This isn't about love for Trump, it's about them being brainwashed by hate radio. (Also a little bit about racial hatred for Obama.) Those rightwingers are angry, and they felt cheated by life and threatened by the government. The libertarians figured out how to play them for suckers. Limbaugh & Hannity know all the right things to say to keep them worked up too.

white working class voters to vote against their own economic interest decades ago which Trump benefited from.