I get it - and I commend your candor.
There was a certain appeal to the idea of rolling a proverbial grenade into the tent; the ideal of an outsider coming in to “drain the swamp” has long fascinated parts of the electorate. The decline of the manufacturing economy has put real economic pressure on a large, mostly white and uneducated swath of the country, directly leading to Trump’s ascendency.
The problem is that Trump is a conman, a liar, and a criminal. He is a fraud. He cannot “drain the swamp” because his own narcissism and incompetence overwhelms his ability to function.
Rather than admit this, as you’ve said well, many of his supporters have doubled down in their fervency. The “drain the swamp” idea has morphed into an ethos of trolling - there are posters here (rhymes with “Nico”) who simply embrace the chaos, because they are basically dead inside after years and years of disappointment and false hope. The irony is that many of those same people embrace the “lizard people”-type conspiracy theories - yet THEY are the lizard people. Trump supporters have grown tails and scales, they are becoming permanent outcasts, they are losing their own humanity.