The premise of the Republican party for half a century now has been: "The government can't do anything right, and if you elect us we'll prove it!"
The premise of the Republican party for half a century now has been: "The government can't do anything right, and if you elect us we'll prove it!"
And it's something of a coin flip whether people prefer that philosophy to the other mob. Trump has made it to a seconds term and is talking about a third because of the stunning policy failures of the US government over the last 50 years.
Were you alive in 2024?
Trump won by <1% against an incumbent in a time that incumbents lost by >10%.
It's absolutely not that people like Trump, it's just that democrats are inept. Literally all democrats had to do was run somebody that didn't have a record of losing primaries.