Seems like Dave Pell might be on to the truth:

I have a feeling that many of us on the left are obsessing over fake news to convince ourselves that millions of Americans were somehow tricked into voting for Trump — that they’ve been unwittingly indoctrinated into some kind of cult, and if we just deprogram them with a little real news and a touch of sanity, they’ll come around and see the error of their ways.

But truth could be a lot more troubling than that. Maybe millions of Americans saw exactly who and what Trump was, and voted for him because of it.