His stupidness was his draw, though. It’s literally critical to his success that he was too stupid to work the system. Every time he said the quiet part out loud and violated the right’s commitment to cryptofascism (tw: just tons of open hate speech and racial slurs) most of us didn’t care, a few of us saw what was happening and were duly upset and enraged, but a significant portion of the population consisting of exasperated racists who were sick of getting no open support said “Finally…”