Folks like you don’t understand Trumpkins because you are able to process logical thought and draw rational conclusions. There’s a reason the largest Trumpkin demo is “white male no college”, and that reason is they are stupid and have almost zero world experience beyond the county they were born.
In the mind of a Trumpkin, scientists, scholars and doctors are all lying to them even though they derive almost zero benefit from those lies. In their minds, the only person telling the truth is a reality TV star who would benefit greatly from lying.
So why do they allow themselves to be conned? The answer is he says what they want to hear: white people are being repressed, the marginalized members of society are going to enslave you if you let them, be afraid and I’m the only one who can save you.
It is literally a cult.