>>510541590This should have been a bigger moment because it shows a clear world of difference between the politics of now than it was but in 2008 where when an old lady said Obama is a Muslim terrorist, McCain shook his head no and shut her down. He ended up losing though. The Trump method would be not to shut her down, but give he validation: "I keep hearing that, that's something we should look in to!" The crowd goes wild.
And that's really what it comes down to, the idea of being represented by Trump when you're unapologetically low info. You don't want to be fact checked, you want someone to "look into it" and treat what you care about as valid. That's why the there's often this sentiment of disconnect between the common man and the elite. It isn't a factor of legal and economic separation between classes, it's validation of beliefs. If you correct them, you're the know it all authority implying what they say, what they care about enough to declare from a microphone on the world stage is actually easily untrue. That hurts. That says you don't have my back, you don't represent my interests, you think my interests are ridiculous. Trump is there for those people and it turns out that those people are often the median voter.