“A lot of less well-educated Americans feel status-humiliated at a time when decent blue-collar jobs are scarcer than ever and higher education is the key to social mobility. They tend to fall for “deep state” and “QAnon” conspiracy theories more readily, and they tend to have low social capital in their personal lives: fewer friends, a higher rate of substance-abuse issues, broken families, and—for males especially—self-eviction from the job market. Trump is always tearing down the elites—political, economic, and cultural—so he appeals to those who think they have been humiliated by “the Man” (whoever or whatever they think that means). This is why Trump’s massive legal problems—his 91 indictments, the libel decisions, his payments of hush money to adult entertainers, his court antics that bring him gag orders, and so on—actually help him with this constituency. They simply conclude that he, like them, is a victim unfairly held down. Their sympathy and support thus overfloweth.”