Zero disagreement there.
But the high likelihood that there will be a significant number of people from the US even on this forum that would not find it surprising and possibly surprised/unhappy he didn't get more is a dynamic that would be very difficult (if not impossible) for people from outside the US to understand. I don't mean that in any negative way.
Agree with this insight. IMO, people outside the US, and by extension international media, generally overrate their knowledge of American people and American sentiments. This is a function of the massively oversized influence of American pop culture in the rest of the world. Most people outside the US grow up on a steady diet of American movies, TV, and music. This breeds an unbalanced familiarity with only a
portion of American society and culture. That portion exports a pop culture that leans left and gives the rest of the world a skewed impression of the average American, who is actually much more conservative, religious, rural, etc.
No wonder the rest of the world is so confused by Trump's popularity. He's like a Disney caricature and Disney has conditioned everyone to think that's unpopular. In essence, the US is basically catfishing the rest of the world.
