That accusation has been leveled at a lot of politicians, often Republicans. But I'm not sure it's true in this case.
I think Donald Trump is a stupid person's idea of a mean person, who's mean to the people they want to be mean to.
We had something similar in George W. Bush. Nobody thought he was smart. People often said that he was preferable to have a beer with. That hardly seems like a good reason to be President, but it was remarkably popular. Like Trump, he did eventually win an election by popular vote, not just the Electoral College.
I have a dark suspicion that for a great many of his voters, they think he's in fact quite stupid. And that's what they want.
