Ever since Donald Trump broke on the scene as a politician, I have been appalled by his self-aggrandizing, his policies and his lies and astonished by his level of support. Yet I have come to realize that he’s quite clever in attracting that support. As the Italians would say, he’s furbo*.
He tailors his policies to his base, not to the country as a whole as one would hope. His immigration policy is racist. But, apparently, so are many in the working class who are negatively impacted by immigration keeping wages down for unskilled jobs. You see the same reaction in the UK, Italy and Germany.