Trump's Ability to Entertain Explains His Political Success?

I've always thought that an underrated part of Trump's appeal, at least to people like me who aren't fans, is his ability to entertain even as he horrifies. You write about feeling queasy during the 2016 campaign when Trump read Lindsey Graham's phone number allowed it a rally but then a colleague of yours later remembered it as funny. To what extent do you think Trump's ability to both repulse and entertain at the same time explains his political success? I think a great deal. He spent decades brick by brick news story by news story building this artifice of himself as a massively successful tycoon commensurate with New York's biggest names in finance - which was just not who