Every time political experts declare that Donald Trump has finally gone too far with one of his inexplicable comments, he proves them wrong.

Trump can never go too far, because he understands something that the experts don’t: Americans hate experts.

If you’ve been paying attention to the financial media over the past few days, you’ve certainly read how Trump is threatening to default on the national debt, and how he wants to madly print money and inflate our way into prosperity, and how, as MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends wrote, “Donald Trump is now threatening the 401(k)s of ordinary Americans.”

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The outrage came after Trump first put one foot in his mouth by saying that he might unilaterally renegotiate the debt owed by the U.S. government, and then he put his other foot in his mouth when he said that he had been misunderstood: What he would really do — maybe — is just print so much money that those bonds wouldn’t be worth anything any more. Debt problem solved.

Trump made some other notable comments over the weekend, including possibly flip-flopping on his opposition to a higher minimum wage and casting some doubt on his proposal to drastically cut taxes for the very rich (“everything’s negotiable”). But it was his comments on the debt that had the experts in full foaming-at-the-mouth mode.

Wall Street reacted as expected: with shock and disdain. How dare any presidential candidate question the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government? How could he threaten to “monetize the debt” by firing up the printing presses? Doesn’t he understand that when he threatens to destroy the value of U.S. Treasurys that he’s risking global financial Armageddon? Doesn’t he know that “ordinary Americans” have Treasurys in their 401(k)?

The experts are, of course, mostly correct. But that misses the point. This is an election, not a midterm exam in a Finance 101 class.

Trump’s supporters don’t worry that the establishment recoils at the thought of a Trump presidency. In fact, the more the establishment elite fears Trump, the more the disaffected voters who are fueling his outsider campaign love him. If the fat cats and the big banks and the elite experts who do their bidding hate Trump, he must be doing something right!

Because, remember, it was the super-rich and their hired experts who destroyed this country. They were the ones who profited from the bubbles and then profited some more when the government bailed out the banks and then profited again when the Fed slashed rates and implemented quantitative easing. They benefited from the unfair trade deals, and the unfair tax code and the destruction of the middle class. Most of all, they benefit from a corrupt political system.

And now we’re supposed to be sad that the value of their bond holdings could fall if Trump defaults on the debt? And we’re supposed to care that our own bond holdings would be worthless? Who are they kidding? We don’t own anything!

Once upon a time, Americans trusted the government, the media, the schools, the churches, the big businesses and the other institutions that were part of what made this country great. But that trust has been all but eroded away. For instance, in 1973, 60% of Americans had a lot of trust in banks, but today only 28% put much faith in them.

Today, doing the opposite of what banks want you to do is pretty smart politics, even if it’s terrible economics.

The only institutions that a majority of Americans trust anymore are the military, small businesses and the police. It’s no coincidence that these are among the few groups that Trump hasn’t insulted.

The experts may be smart, but they haven’t noticed that all their fact-checking and debunking haven’t dented Trump’s support among the large number of voters who are simply fed up with the direction this country is going under the guidance of the so-called experts.

It’s not just Trump’s economic plans. The experts hate Trump’s plans to build a wall on the Mexican border, and to deport illegal immigrants, and to ban Muslims, and to reject America’s role as the world’s policeman and nation builder. Universally, the experts say, Trump’s plans don’t make sense.

They’ve debunked all of his craziest conspiracy theories, from Muslims celebrating 9/11 and fearing pigs’ blood to President Barack Obama’s birth in Kenya and Rafael Cruz’s crucial role in the assassination of JFK.

But no one cares what the experts say any more. Trump certainly doesn’t.

This is the secret to Trump’s success. A large portion of the electorate doesn’t care what the facts are. (After all, “facts are stupid things.”) A senior official working for George W. Bush was once quoted anonymously that the White House could create its own reality, but Trump has taken that to new levels: He simply ignores reality.

Trump says he’s the king of debt, but we know better: He’s the king of truthiness.