James,
People who are the working poor and those who have been unemployed for so long they have given up looking for work have heard all the political crap from the Hillary's and the Warren's and they don't trust either one. By the way, Hillary is no longer "broke" she and Bill managed to fill their coffers pretty quickly after declaring they were broke as they left the White House. Ms. Warren is not starving herself. They haven't delivered too well either.
I have no doubt that Trump is all the things you say he is. However, to a very despairing group of people he was a change in the status quo. 
I think that Steven Hawking said it best, why Trump got elected. 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality

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