You, @volkris, "don't think Trump is sufficiently connected to reality to realize that he's participating in a fiction."
Trump was elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2024 because people underestimated him, as you did with those words. We will soon see what happens as a result of the Putin-Trump meeting. I guess that he will be convinced by Putin, put the best spin on their meeting, and put additional pressure on Ukraine. He could remove all American sanctions on Russia. #PutinsPuppet #politics
I spend quite a lot of time listening to the folks who promoted and voted for Trump. His voters vastly overestimated him, and he has a LONG track record of failing to live up to their fantasies, from the deep state that he didn't fix through wars that he didn't end through felony convictions that he didn't overcome.
So no, he wasn't elected because people underestimated him. How would that even work?
He was elected specifically because his voters overestimated him.
