As I said, Donald Trump has made chumps of all of the American electorate. It began when he chose to put his name into the Republican hat, and it continues now even after the election. His first victims were the Republicans themselves, but in the end, we all fell prey to his tactics. Before 2015, many assumed Jeb Bush would be the Republican nominee. However, that went away very quickly. Carson was looking strong early on until Cruz and Rubio began to take center stage. However, the Donald was strong right out of the gate, and he ended up defeating Lying Ted, sweaty Marco, and Doctor "the pyramids are grain silos", as well as the rest of them. In the general election, he never had a prayer. He was alienating demographics left and right, even other Republicans were turning against him, but still he was victorious come November. So how did he do it? By tricking everyone into thinking he couldn't. With all his childish antics, all his radical proposals, he made sure that everyone was taking aim at him. However, in getting his opponents to notice him, he made sure that the public did, too. Remember his feud with Meagan Kelly? The debate he skipped? All free publicity. The Republicans fell for it, then so did the Democrats. Everyone was so busy criticizing his immature behavior, shaming him for his irrational stunts, and fact checking his outrageous statements that they never realized that they were constantly making him the center of attention and allowing him to control the discussions. For most politicians, prominent members of your own party turning against you would be devastating to your campaign. Not Trump. From the beginning he made his campaign about his being an outsider. When Republicans started turning against him while Democrats were constantly opposing him, it reinforced the idea that career politicians of both parties wanted to keep the outsiders out. Now Ryan, Chaffetz, Romney, McConnell, etc were never going to vote for Hillary. However, them condemning Trump went right along with the idea of a Washington Cartel. While we were all laughing at the shriveled peach with golden hair and tiny hands who said crazy things, Donald was playing us all like a flute. (A very tiny flute for his very tiny fingers.) Now, I can already imagine some of the responses I'm going to get to this. People will tell me to cry big blue tears, say that I need to accept the results, and throw around meaningless insults. The word 'cuck' in particular will be used excessively, I'm sure. The irony behind this is that the people saying those things got played just like the rest of us. The worst victims of Trump's puppeteering are those who elected him. I'm not talking about the ones who voted for him just to vote against Hillary, because let's be honest, she was pretty awful. I'm not referring to the ones who voted for him for no other reason than the 'R' next to his name (though I do have plenty of issues with those people). I'm not even talking about the ones who voted for him because they thought having a businessman as president would be good for the economy. It will be decades before we can begin to understand the large-scale effects of the Trump presidency. The fools, the ones who have hand his miniscule hands up their rectums the longest, are the people who voted for him because of his other promises. I'm talking about promises like the wall, locking her up, the Muslim ban, repealing Obamacare, and of course, draining the swamp. On November eighth, in his victory speech, he was already backing down from these. He's now said a fence would be better for some parts of the border. He's completely backed down from locking up Hillary (even though she honestly deserves it) as well as the Muslim ban and/or registry. He's said he might allow some people to keep their health from the ACA. The only way his administration could be swampier is if all of his cabinet members were alligators. Face it. He got you just like the rest of us. His promises were nothing more than a facade to harness the potential wave of alt-right fanaticism that he saw on the horizon. Now, do I have any proof of this? Of course not. Only the man himself truly knows, while the rest of us are left to speculate. Maybe he really is the moron we thought he was all along, and his victory was simply a combination of charisma, general dissatisfaction with the establishment, and being lucky enough to have one of the most unlikable and untrustworthy politicians in the nation as his opponent. However, if has even a tenth of the intelligence he claims, I would not think it impossible for him to pull off an act such as the one I have described here. Tl;Dr: Trump played us all for chumps, opponents and supporters alike.