"Suckers and Losers"
Trump
The Subconscious Mind
and
Military Service
That's because he only interacts with his enablers and his base. They are people whose subconscious minds have been co-opted and summarily deceived and can merge with all his words and nefarious deeds. America's subconscious mind is the only one Trump can talk to, and that's why he's incapable of being President to the entirety of the United States of America.
Trump cannot defend his actions to America's conscious mind, nor can his posse. His actions are not defendable to the conscious mind. The conscious mind evaluates and qualifies. Unlike the subconscious mind, it will not just blindly put a square peg in a square hole just because it fits. Acceptance will be judged on substance.
And that brings us to Trump, the subconscious mind, and military service. It's difficult to imagine any subconscious pathways among Americans that hold the thoughts that Trump has expressed about the military. In the last forty years, no one else has been quoted calling our troops "suckers and losers." That's all on him.
This is resonating so differently with American voters because there isn't a subconscious pathway among Trump's base to merge with the conscious words and sentiment he's put out there. America is reacting with conscious thought, and conscious thought is appalled by such a callous and erroneous opinion!
Repetition...Repetition...Repetition
One of the ways that the subconscious mind is willing to reevaluate a deeply grooved pathway is on the strength of the argument being made by the conscious mind. Your subconscious mind, which never wants to let you down, now has reason to wonder if it did..."what if I've been wrong...what if I've been wrong about him."
With every denial, with every attempt at misdirection, "what if you have been wrong about him," is a response voters must hear from Democrats over and over and over again. It is a wedge that, if used properly, will widen the doubt in the subconscious minds of those who voted for Trump last time and are still questioning the wisdom in doing it again. Spoken and written often enough, it could even have an impact on some in the Trump base.
It is very unlikely that Donald Trump understands why what he does to maintain his hold on America keeps working for him...only that it does. And because it does, he's gotten very, very good at it.