Trump is controversial and well-known and thus it just makes sense that you’d assume he’d draw a big crowd. But it immediately made me think of last year’s CPAC, when Trump spoke to a practically empty room:
The thing about Trump is that he’s not even a good troll. We often ignore the fact that most voters—including people who share his views—are viscerally disgusted by him. I suspect I like to talk about him more than you like to hear about him, which is another way of saying that coverage of Trump is a form of media navel-gazing. He’s a prop in our narratives about American political life. What we say about him is often a judgment on our relationship to it.