It's definitely among the main reasons he won the election. The left's "anything goes resistance" (third-world derived lack of restraint) has ensured that whether you are a weak Trump supporter or even a mild critic — anyone normal ends up as a de facto Trump campaign worker. Dismissing the day's list of CNN/tabloid trash is simply prerequisite to having normal political discussion.
Trump is in practice a weak centrist president who has done little more than revert Obama policy back into Clinton/Bush policy. However, discussing preexisting immigration laws with the blunt vernacular of an elderly New Yorker turned him into a "far-right fascist!!!".
The hysterical overreactions, the debunked accusations, they really resonated with Americans who have to navigate SJW freak environments on a daily basis just to graduate or get paid.
"Yeah? This dirt-average, totally standard political candidate is literally Hitler, you idiot fuck who thinks everyone is Hitler? Well he's got my vote".