Its a two edge sword because people claim they want honesty, but the Truth of the matter if someone is completely honest they will never get elected.
America in the screen age loves a liar. Hates a loser.
1960 JFK wins with some truly outrageous and historic lies and grifting
1964 LBJ landslides
1968 Nixon, who has always been a liar, realized trying not to lie in 1968 was a huge mistake
1972 Nixon's mind broke into full schizophrenic paranoia . . . and he won even bigger
1976 Both guys were actually honest, but one seemed a little lost and admitted it when he messed up (always declare victory in politics)
1980/1984 The GOAT--even he didn't know what the truth was!
1988 George HW Bush - this man ran the CIA and knew how to run an op on Dukakis
1992 Clinton - so slimy that Bush thought he could win by being an Honest Abe! Newsflash: Honest Abe was dishonest!
1996 Clinton versus Dole - maybe history's greatest liar/honest mismatch. Dole probably told Liz her ass looked fat when she asked about a dress.
2000 W - won two terms the instant Dick Cheney became the real top of the ticket - with Cheney/Rove and the hapless left trying to find a counterpunch, the current disinformation economy is born and it booms
2008 Obama - a political magician who paid attention to how political success actually is achieved versus two tell it like they see it opponents
2016 Trump - the Lebron James of lying versus the only person on earth less credible - so obviously one of the closest elections ever
2020 Biden - staying in his basement while Trump tried to look like he understood Covid response - a beautiful lie of omission that won the election going away
2024 Trump - Kamala needs to pick up the pace on lies. She seems game but Trump is rounding into playoff Lebron form now. Example: when he started going on about how he could be on a beach sunning "my beautiful body"! It feels like a campaign run by Brad Pitt's character from 12 Monkeys! "They're eating the dogs!!!!" Trump is absolutely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs right now and swing/undecided voters will 100% love that.