That’s an easy one. The old saying that “all politics is local” is only partially true. We want responsible government where we see it will have a direct impact on our daily lives (State, local level)....but too many uninformed, ignorant, candy-assed Americans feel that Washington, DC is somehow removed...set apart...from their/our daily lives. They have also fallen for the decades-long lie that the Fed is truly “institutionalized” and there’s nothing they can do about it anyway, sooooo....may as well vote for a Marxist mulatto gay idiot who never held a real job in his life to “feel good” about themselves (somehow, for some reason....probably because the media instructed them thusly).
Of course, anyone with half a brain knows better, but there you are.
Or view D.C. as their "baby's daddy",