I'm not sure how, but I think you failed to consider that politicians lie. The goal was literally never to fix America's internal problems. To do that, you'd have to increase spending on education and healthcare, increase employment by ways including reducing the amount of innocent people in jail – or those there for sentences far exceeding justified for their crimes. You know, standard liberal checklist.

MAGA was always about being the next Ronald Reagan. And if you think that's a compliment you haven't read anything about the lasting damage of the failed experiment that is Trickle-Down Economics

did he expect someone NOT a part of the yacht club to be able to get to the podium?