Because he wasn’t a politician.

The rise of corporate oligarchy and buying of politicians has led to a deep distrust of all politicians and institutions.

Anyone can be bought and our government — both political parties—have been whoring themselves out to corporations, increasingly since the Reagan era.

The 'little guy' is trapped between choosing between two entrenched party candidates with the same goals, constraints, and masters. Voting has become an exercise in which one do you want to bend you over or beat you this term? Your voice matters.

Trump was a brick to throw at the whole thing for a lot of angry people. Most of his most ardent supporters love him because they think he’s an outsider who will break open what’s broken and excise the rot so that it can be repaired. So great is their rage and despair, they have blinded themselves to the fact that he’s not an outsider, he’s part and product of the same dysfunction and he doesn’t care about fixing anything. He’s a bull in a China shop who will wander off to greener pastures when then there’s nothing left in the shop to break. Leaving every day Americans with the mess to clean up and no resources to do so.