I don't think it's a matter of believing Trump can magically fix everything that's broken or somehow snap his fingers and correct what's blatantly wrong with our government in his first 100 days. I don't even believe he'll be 100% successful at doing everything he wants to do, not because he's full of shit but because it's being realistic.
One of the biggest things going for Trump (in my opinion) is the fact he first of all recognizes the system is broken, second is willing to speak the truth about it rather than sugar coat it with heaps of bullshit and third expresses a desire to change it. Technically that in and of itself doesn't fix anything but it's critical to changing things.
The alternative is someone who lies about lying, knows the system is broke but could give two shits because it's broke in her favor and she wants to keep it that way, pretends things are cheery and has no desire to fix what benefits her. Aka, the status quo, the same thing that's caused the never Trumper movement within the stagnant gop. At that point it's not even a partisan issue, it's good ol' boy corrupt and comfy vs real change that will upset the tea kettle.
Being able to name the problems and addressing them is a major first step in the right direction. Turning a blind eye to it and lying about it has 0 chance of change/improvement. To say things will never change is an ignorant mind set, things always change. Sometimes it takes 100yrs or 500yrs, but shit changes. I'm sure in the days of the Roman empire people couldn't imagine things changing. I'm sure there was a time when the people of England never imagined any sort of voting system, the King ruled, took lands and wrote up rules as he pleased and if he didn't like you, fuck you and off with your head. He didn't need consult with a congress, he said, the pee ons did.
Given our much wider spread use of the internet and social media now vs even 2008 or 2012 and the immediate voice of the people being heard more loudly as news unfolds we might be in a better position to make our voices heard. Rather than being forced to wait for elections, committees and hearings, writing letters to officials that sit on their desk for 8mo until they get tossed in the circular file, the people have a stronger voice when it comes to issues.
We're seeing that with many situations, the dropping on his knees by Kaepernick and the almost immediate loss of viewership of football games. Action and reaction. We can also see a similar effect when news came out of the pentagon going after war vets and demanding their bonuses back after 5-10yrs. In the past it would have slowly trickled to the rest of the nation, people would have grumbled in their social circles at work about it, a few may have pissed and moaned and nothing would have happened. In today's climate large portions of the nation are able to react and call foul, publicly shaming the government into issuing an apology and within a week or so of the story making headlines, statements that the money grab from our vets has been halted. We've skipped the long drawn out process that mutes the voice of the public and are getting results because of it.
This could very well translate to stifling of voter fraud as well. No more hearing about it months after an election, people notice it and get pissed and their experiences are blasted across the airwaves of the internet ignoring msm's failure to report on things. No longer do we need the news spoon fed to us or to pick and choose what topics we need to hear and when. No sitting on it and waiting for it to go away. We can spread information on our own and much faster than the traditional msm. The filtered mediation of the 'news' between incident and the public has been sidestepped and once news explodes around social media the msm can't keep a lid on it. Instead they're forced to cover it and try to play catch up since they're hours or days behind the news.