In 2016 I personally was not a fan of Trump. I thought he presented himself as a braggart. I was well aware that Hillary was a pathological liar however, and evil as fuck. So I voted for Trump in 2016 primarily because he wasn't Hillary. If Bernie Sanders hadn't gotten screwed in the Primary, I might have voted for him (I was on the fence at the time).

During his presidency I never liked the way Trump presented himself and I couldn't stand to hear him speak, but I also recognized that the media was lying about him. They would blatantly lie about his words, and I didn't understand why. I thought, "Just because you think he's a blowhard doesn't mean his words should be misrepresented." They lied about his policies, pulling random shit out of their ass just to be "oppositional" and I thought "Just because you don't think it's going to work out for the best, doesn't mean you need to fear monger."

I voted for him in 2020 because I thought his policy decisions weren't bad, but mostly I voted for him because he wasn't senile and/or a part of Obama's crew. I never, for one second, thought Trump would lose, but I still voted for him (even though I usually don't vote). No one I knew thought he would lose, and I live in Blue Pill central. When he lost I thought it was no big deal. Four more years of a shit President. I lived through it with Clinton, Bush, and Obama. Each President was as fubar as every other, so I didn't really care.

But I'm a numbers guy. I analyze large numerical datasets all the time. The numbers made no sense. I decided to look at the data. The numbers were impossible. I worked on it until I proved that the numbers were impossible to a statistical probability of one in a googolplex. That was my awakening moment.

After I started digging in and became fully aware of the Cabal and purposeful media manipulation, I realized that Trump's braggadocio was a speaking in code, and an intentional bypass of the lies of the MSM. His statements may have looked like "bragging," but they were also corroborated by deeper digging. Only those willing to look would see that though, so to anyone not willing to look it would continue to look like bragging.

I think Trump is polarizing by intention. At each step more and more people see that the MSM are lying about Trump, but they only see it when they are ready to look for themselves. Thus Trump is training wheels for independent investigation. You have to be willing to think for yourself to see the lies, and thus you will only begin to break free from the brainwashing when you are ready to think for yourself.

If on the other hand everyone liked him, or were indifferent, the media wouldn't have any ammunition, and he would cease to be a "training system" for independent thought.

I believe that is why Trump is so polarizing. He has to be to break the trust in the experts that people have been programmed to see. Indeed, I think that "left leaning" converts are more awake than those who were already conservative because they have had to question their reality more. I think that many people on "the right" have further to go to realize that the right is just as fubar as the left, both contrived and controlled by the same source.