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If you pour enough money/resources into anyone, you can get them to win an election. Trump was just the easiest one to pour money into: he's easily swayed, even more easily bought, and has a certain... shudders charisma (?) that makes him more electable than a rando mild conservative.
What you're witnessing here is just capitalism. People with a lot of money and power wanted to gain even more money and power. Trump a convenient vehicle for that. So they poured money into his campaign and he won.
It's a good reason to consider sortition, or a system that distributes power so that it's super diffuse.
An example would be abolition of SCOTUS: Instead we create a special court for each individual case, pulling nine judges at random from the Appeals districts. That way, no Supreme Court justice can be owned the way Thomas and Alito are -- or one can, but they're not likely to get on all the cases a billionaire deems important.