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I remember all the snobbishness about Trump first time round (ugh, he eats his steak with ketchup!) and that, coming from the Party of the Little Guy, Minorities, and Totally Not College Grad White Professionals, really sounded even worse than it needed to be. If you're sneering so hard that your eyes are permanently crossed looking down your nose at 'what a low-class bum' his mannerisms are, then how the hell are you going to appeal to those same lower class voters who might eat burgers with ketchup and steak with ketchup and what's wrong with ketchup anyways?
Hillary did herself no favours with the "basket of deplorables" and it's really hard to believe the other side that "no, we really care about you and want to make your lives better" when you know they think of you as a deplorable. Why are the working class blue-collar whites voting against their economic interests instead of voting Democrat? Well, why are the Democrats doing all they can to sound like their fondest dream is to be able to piss on working class blue-collar whites?
I do think that's it. He's relatable in a way any of the others, Republican or Democrat, aren't (maybe Joe Manchin, but he gets more stick from his own party than the opposition precisely because he represents rural/industrial Virginia, knows it, knows what his constituents want, and gets it for them to the best of his ability). Think of that book about Hillary, which I can't really blame Hillary for since she had nothing to do with it, but oh man. Cringe-inducing (remember the illustration implying that Jackie Robinson and others had it so much easier in life than a middle-class white girl in the 60s?). Imagine a version about Trump instead, it would be awesome because it would be so over the top!
EDIT: Those illos are even creepier than I remembered, what is with giving Little Girl Hillary those staring, painfully wide-open, serial-killer eyes?
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