Trump is such a perfect embodiment of how nothing about this system is a meritocracy and is instead built upon elevating the most mediocre figures in our society based solely on their proximity to whiteness, maleness and wealth...

...His ability to get through the final debate without wetting himself earns him praise while many more qualified people will work twice as hard and never have the access to power he's been granted by this society simply because they weren't born into his privileged status.

As much as people claim to support Trump because he sticks it to the elite, he's the most genuine embodiment of rich, white elitism and that's the true reason he's enjoyed as much support as he has. His presidency was always about reinforcing the rules of race, class & power.

The latitude he's been given to be a complete disaster, entirely incompetent and an ongoing threat to the safety and security of the country was always about him being a symbolic flex of rich, white male privilege, a comfort for anyone threatened by ideas of equality & justice.