His policies had the lure taken from the strongman playbook, and people drawn to "shows" of power "felt" he had innate authority -- that no woman can have.
They believed him this time because deep down they've been irrational, racist misogynists all along.
They have projected their beliefs in power (and even christian hopes) onto a man who cares not a whit for them.
That's who are among us. 
He and his oligarch network are who they voted to lead the country, wittingly or unwittingly. They're okay with his oligarch friends running the show in his name, that network's goal being to "finish the job" of pwning the country.
They're cryptotechbro extremists who've created an Earth 2 mindset in trump followers -- this network are certain they can remake this country into a new reality created "by consensus." Their values are not virtues, just power, profit, AI and energy use.
Their mindset is just not sustainable on this finite planet, imo. We are the conservatives of humanity on Earth 1 now.
You ask key questions. I might sound nuts by describing these unhinged people, but I just don't know how else to explain this.
Unless, as some have discussed elsewhere here, our election was hacked. (I wonder if codes could've been sent through Starlink; I just can't rule that out) And about that...sooner or later, the truth will out.
We humans will either use tools or be tools.
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