I Am a Curious Person

Being as I'm British I feel entitled to be excused for not knowing. It's the Trump thing. Obviously this guy, for all his political inexperience, has struck a chord with just over half of American voters. He can't behave himself around attractive young women, he's a tax-dodging billionaire and the kkk support him. Yet still he is admired by a large wedge of American society, including women and non-white people, who by any standards are perfectly decent, intelligent folk.

Since I'm not American, what I see of Trump is his bad press. Since I'm open-minded I'm convinced there is a reason I shouldn't take that bad press at face value. So I wont. Trump speaks for something that's been overlooked, repressed even, and i dont know what it is. It's not fair to label all his supporters racists misogynists and homophobes because I know it's not universally true. But I'd love to find out his appeal, given the unexpected shock of his election, and some of the reported fallout resulting from it

SW-User

strictly speaking, it was technically under half. but we don't do things by the popular vote. I think a good part of his appeal for many people is that he's seen as something different. an X factor that can maybe shake things up in some way. I don't know if he can or will, but that's my impression.