re: #79 DangerMan

His biggest benefit is/ was lying with impunity
2nd is a complicit media
3rd is every craven R in congress

He ran as the anti-politician at a time when people were particularly fed up with politicians and politics as usual

He had no record of public service at a time when any sort of record was a liability

He could and did promise whatever he thought his target audience wanted to hear, in the most vague and hyperbolic terms