History is full of populists who burst onto the scene with all the sound and fury they can muster for their one and only issue, and then end up disappearing without so much as a ripple on the surface. You want to hitch your wagon to the flavor of the month, be my guest, but let's not pretend that carrying one district is a mandate to speak for the nation.
I didn't say they did. I'm saying that if you think they were somehow "duped" into voting for him, then there'd be no basis for saying that people elsewhere aren't duped into voting for whomever they vote for.