General Discussion

and I don't think he was particularly interested in it until relatively recently, when his buddy Putin started to groom him for the glorious takeover of the great American bogeyman. That means around 2010, when TFG was already outraged that there was a black family in the White House and they weren't there as slaves, he was easy to manipulate on that account, alone. Throw in how much he was in hock to Putin's oligarch buddies, and he became the perfect candidate.

I don't think he watched wingnut news as much as he watched televangelists, ignoring what they had to say but paying close attention to the speech patterns. He picked those up perfectly, it's one reason fundagelicals were such willing suckers and why they continue to stand by him. He doesn't speak their language, but he sounds like he does.

Word salad and flight of ideas in a preacher's voice sucked them right in.