Why is Trump so popular in the US election?

Americans are no strangers to Trump, but they never regard him as a politician. This self-made real estate tycoon has always been known for his personality, behavior and uncertainty. In short, this gentleman is "controversial" at best, and frankly speaking, he is a wonderful flower. In fact, when he announced his candidacy for the presidency in mid-June, most people didn't take it seriously, and even took it as a joke, because he repeatedly declared that he would run for the presidency, but never really put it into action, so that even his chief political adviser admitted with a headache, "Trump's biggest shortcoming is that people think he won't really run for the presidency." Even if he was serious this time, his campaign speech didn't seem to matter. He was ridiculed by the media as "I don't know how many times I digress", as if the only clear message was "I have money"-he casually said: "I am really rich ... that's what your country needs. This sounds stupid and rude, but it is not stupid and rude. "

Really, many people think he is "ignorant and rude". In the interview, he directly belittled the appearance of Carly Fiorina, the former female president of HP, a rival in the party: "Look at that face, will anyone vote for that face?" Can you imagine that is the face of our next president? "He openly questioned that the current President Obama is not an American and asked Obama to issue a birth certificate. When his supporters claimed that "there is a problem in our country, that is, Muslims ... the current president is one of them", he did not correct it on the spot. As for foreign policy, he declared that "I like China", but he would still take care of China because "China people stole our job opportunities" and suggested that China should be punished for "every bad behavior". He criticized Russia fiercely, but he was confident that he could "get along well" with Russian bears. As for the peace agreement with Iran, in his view, it is naturally terrible. In the inner-party debate, South Carolina Senator Graham simply ridiculed Trump's foreign policy as "learned from cartoons." "

However, such a dangerous and controversial figure is now leading the * * * and party campaign camps, and those remarks that seem to get him into trouble have not made him lose points. Instead of going out, he became a dark horse. He is even considered as the biggest attraction of the 20 16 US presidential election. Why are so many American voters willing to bet on him?

The answer may be: he is great, but he is not stupid. If you think he is stupid, good, it may be part of his strategy.

It can be said that Trump, as a former TV reality show host, knows how to cater to the public. To some extent, he turned the presidential election into a reality show audition-when he announced his candidacy, the music on the stage was rock music, as if a star appeared instead of a politician. He made exaggerated movements on various occasions. David givens, a scholar at the Center for Nonverbal Studies in Washington, DC, thinks Trump's body language is extremely inflammatory. "No third person has been able to do this since Kennedy and Mussolini." In this process, controversial actions are very important, which is what he is best at in his life. Every view he seems extremely wrong has touched the hearts of some voters and turned his weaknesses and shortcomings into advantages.

Indeed, he is not as dignified as other politicians at all, but it makes people feel that he is amiable and not that tall. Those people in the Red Neck States like his "vulgar frankness", frankness and nothing to hide. Yes, he suspects that Obama is a Muslim, but according to a survey conducted by CNN in mid-September this year, 29% of Americans still hold the same view, and 43% of them are Republicans. He criticized the Obama administration for spending $5 billion to build a medical insurance website. "I hired three people and spent three dollars to build a website." This populist remark is poking people, and a large number of people suspect that the government is wasting taxpayers' money. His conservative values are exactly what the party wants. Like a "born-again Christian", he advised teenagers not to smoke and take drugs when visiting high schools. He looks full of strong masculinity, firm and frank. And he became a billionaire from scratch, which is a successful example in itself (although he went bankrupt four times). With so much money, he naturally won't be corrupt-he declared that the president's annual salary of $400,000 was "no big deal" and if elected, he wouldn't want a dime.

What does it matter that he lacks political experience? Reagan used to be a third-rate actor in Hollywood and later became one of the greatest presidents in American history. President Roosevelt also casually claimed that his understanding of the world came from his knowledge of stamp collecting. Moreover, don't forget that it was high flyers trained by Harvard that dragged the country into the quagmire of the Vietnam War. For some voters with serious grassroots mentality, his image as a political amateur is a good thing: it just shows that he has no collusion with other political groups.

These are the thoughts of low-income white men among Trump's core voters. Just like a few years ago, many crosstalk performers and other people with no ruling experience were elected as mayors in Japan, American support for Trump also shows a profound rebellious mood in contemporary politics: ordinary people lack trust in politicians, especially those cunning politicians, who think that they are making things more and more complicated just to make ordinary people understand and let them do something secretly. Trump's public criticism of this criticism seems ugly and full of loopholes, but these voters don't care. On the contrary, they think "he is one of us" because they are.

Although there has always been a saying of "rational voters", it is the same as the myth of "rational consumers". This is not the case: voting for a candidate, like buying a brand of goods in the market, seems to be the result of rational calculation of the mind, but in the end it is often the "heart" rather than the "brain"-even if you know that someone can do well, but if you don't trust or like him emotionally,

Of course, some people say that although it is effective to steal the camera like Trump, "does the public want a reality show star to be their president?" On this issue, perhaps it should be asked in reverse: "Does Trump really want to be president?" Running for president is not so much his purpose as his means-in fact, Trump won: even if he is not the president, he can earn enough advertising fees for his "brand". A person who earns so much money from scratch is more likely to be a shrewd businessman than an idiot.