Was it the problem calling wolf? Or was the problem calling wolf and then devouring all the hens as soon as you got in power?
People are just confused with of all the rhetoric against war while the games continue in the Middle East. The war against terror while "moderate rebels" with ties to Al-Qaeda are treated as allies. The raising inequality paired with the dogma of the free market while we rescue banks as soon as the free market breaks down. Where the Democratic party approved NAFTA while being the natural allies of labor. Where Bill Clinton passed the Crime Law but is remembered as an ally of minorities.
In this climate where one position and the opposite one are true at the same time it's not strange that somebody like Trump can arrive, start spewing bullshit and still be taken seriously as long as he calls out the establishment.