I think people wanted it to be true because they didn't want to believe a man like Trump could be elected President of the United States normally. I do think t

I think people wanted it to be true because they didn't want to believe a man like Trump could be elected President of the United States normally. I do think the rise of social media has opened up the ability for foreign countries to influence people's beliefs regarding an election, much more than they could in the past (although it's not a new phenomenon and the US is guilty of it as well). But I also think the 2020 election also helped prove that it's not just foreign influence that can make people vote for someone like Trump, they're perfectly capable of coming to that conclusion on their own. There wasn't just social media influencing this time, they could see with their own eyes what Trump was doing the past four years, not just speculation, and still decided they wanted to support him.