the answer to this has alway been "because no matter how badly he fucks everything up, he'll never get in the way of them being white christian nationalist terrorists"
I mean not to hype them up but we are lucky it was his dumb ass instead of cruz or anyone else who knows how to work the system that is also a racist racist piece of shit
Trump was real bad but it could have been much much worse
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..."