It's a hard one to figure. I get the 4chan maga people cause they're irony poisoned and it adds up easily. But boater kulaks were more normal prior and it was pretty well understood he was a long standing guy to laugh at. Why this particular guy with his reputation somehow appealed to the crowd he appealed to is weird as hell and even in retrospect it doesn't make sense. It's like a body snatcher thing, suddenly people had trust in a dude who'd been a punchline for decades. Orange man bad etc, but it is really strange that such a wide swath of people voluntarily gave up their potential to ever be taken seriously to sincerely believe a dude who was always a hairpiece farce is the second coming.