No Mr Crouere.
Our distrust of media and the government far precedes the Trump campaign. You folks in the gov't/media bubble just didn't/couldn't/did not want to hear us. At the time Mr Trump started calling you and your gov't. buddies out, you were all waiting for him to implode. You would report everything he said or did in hopes you could use it to pile on at a later date.
SURPRISE!!
The people agreed with him! They did not heed him...HE heeded THEM.
It's not that we "followed" him, it's that he, with media's unwitting (dimwitted?) assistance was the first person of stature to give voice to our frustrations and the media gave him that platform.
You media/gov't types STILL don't get it!
Right on the money
Excellent post.