Well that certainly explains a few things such as how could so many U.S. voters be so dumb? The author of this article in today's Record titled "Trump the result of years of waning trust" is Calvin White with a degree in psychology.
He states that "...we have been betrayed by generations of of leaders in government who have created psychological credibility strain, if not full distrust." Furthermore he states "The calling card of politicians is to never answer the question, only say what the trainers advise, put on a photo-op face at all times and pretend, pretend, pretend. And all the while, serve their own best electoral interests and the power interests of those they need help from."
In my opinion this simply reinforces my borrowed motto from Pat Potter namely that "They all lie". In other words they are all crooks of one form or another and I believe that this permeates from the top down throughout our governance.
For me despite climate change and the bizarre weather we received five days ago, the primary failure of our ruling class (lying politicians) has to be in housing. By the way last Wednesday's heavy snow followed by heavy rain and damaging winds and then 14 degrees Celsius and sunshine all day on Thursday merely adds to my March 27/25 post about our bizarre weather this year.
Mr. White also suggests that Donald Trump 's time on television as a reality star helped his public persona. "...his appearance as an avatar was grown unconsciously in us over his 14 years as a billionaire TV star accepted for his wisdom and right to fire whomever he chose over and over while all viewers were thus being groomed to his entitled leadership."
So does knowing the public rationale for bringing such a first class ass*ole to political prominence ease the pain somewhat? Not really despite at least knowing somewhat how it occurred.