No, what comes as a shock to me is that they'd not only elect the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum, but they'd make excuses to cover for him instead of look at the issues.
'Never give a sucker an even break'.
Read a little history and you'll realize that the people who started and won the Revolution that created this country were one Hell of a lot more like Trump than Cruz and any other candidate in the past twenty-five years. Up to and including being carny barkers and among the wealthiest people in the colonies.
And that's the revolutionaries who weren't smugglers like Hancock or taking a cut of piracy loot in exchange for outfitting pirate ships.