Faux Campaign

What happened to our country?What happened to us?What happened to honesty and truth? Integrity?Trump happened,but it is more than that.It's all of us.Trump couldn't succeed without the rest of our complicity.Let's reconstruct:

Trump has wanted to run for president for a long time.He explored it before,but it wasn't right.This time things were a little different as he threw ideas out.
I think that originally it was simply exploration,an attempt without expectation.I know that I will be wrong about most of the particulars because,as everyone else,I will interject more logic than is present,than could be present.T rump has no concept of logic..or even order.He couldn't have succeeded otherwise.

He had a few very simple ideas and,as I said,just threw them out.Immigration seemed a good starting point.He made a couple of wild statements to gauge the response.Surprisingly,the immigration response was positive,so he decided to continue longer.

I think that he wanted to try an unstandard campaign,to concentrate on emotional issues and say what he thought the people wanted to hear.He has no concrete political ideology so he could be flexible.As he proceeded he found that he could easily adjust policies,adapt to the public response and get away with it.

I think that Trump has no core belief other than winning at any cost,so he will adopt any policy that will appease political and public response and even that is subject to change.He will also lie at will to substantiate any change.

Much of his campaign depended on attacking and degrading any opposition and is rife with hyperbole.Everything is exaggerated: wonderful, beautiful,great,big,best,(make America great).Everyone else is inferior,little, ,crooked and he is the only one that can succeed.Lies and distortions were and are the norm.He is a classic bombastic bully and he gets away with it

In summary,he had and still has,an open-ended campaign with no absolutes: whatever works, or will work,that is publically and politically palatable.No promises are real promises.Everything that he has said is meaningless.He has had,in short,a faux campaign.