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He's the only politician in a century who did anything mildly populist/nativist/protectionist and that fact alone wins him the support of a lot of the people who have been left behind in the US economy for their entire lives. This is true even when he's doing objectively stupid or self serving things, since we expect that from our politicians anyway.
If we had an actual functioning Democratic party we wouldn't have Trump now, but Dems most strongly held belief is that we need to import the entire third world as fast as possible so that Mr. Shekelstein doesn't have to pay actual labor rates.