re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is because he marketed himself as the Anti-Politician, voting for him was flipping a Big Bird to Politics as Usual.

And he still gets away with it at least within the party, remember Rubio writing off his remarks about encouraging Russia to invade delinquent NATO countries with “He doesn’t express himself like regular politicians”….

Which functionally only means one thing: He’s the end result of decades of Repubs telling their base that they should not feel bad about being unrepentant assholes. That they should feel okay to be as racist, bigoted, and hateful in public as they like because anyone who tells them otherwise is being “politically correct” and that’s against everything it means to be a “Real ‘Merikan!”