some people vote for Trump because they think he can overthrow the “deep state”. but i bet at least as many do so because they think he can’t, so whatever bullshit he spouts he can’t do much harm, and they want to protest just that situation.

(i think they are badly wrong about the putative impotence of elected Presidents. but these people are lost in a shrug of cynicism, our flawed democracy is not a democracy at all, no better than any autocracy you might name.)