Over the past eight-plus years, political analysts of all stripes have tended to give Trump the wrong sort of credit for the support he enjoys with voters. Leftists, in particular, marvel at former President Donald Trump's seeming ability to create positions with which so many Americans agree.
They are spectacularly wrong.
Trump has not created viewpoints among Americans; he has recognized and capitalized on strong sentiments that existed before his foray into politics, sentiments most other Republicans either failed to see or refused to act on. (That's a topic for another day, but suffice it to say that the same Republicans who can't stand Trump -- and have aligned with Democrats to undermine him -- had been willing to throw their own voters under the bus time after time, on issue after issue, which is why they are no longer in control of the Republican Party. Sorry, not sorry. Buh-bye.)
The Left's fundamental error explains why they have been so hell-bent on destroying Trump personally. According to their worldview, if they can just get rid of Trump, the ideas they think he is responsible for creating will go away. For their part, establishment Republicans have also labored under the misimpression that removing Trump will allow them to return to business as usual. Nope. That ship has sailed.
However, the Democrats are just as wrong about their problems with President Joe Biden. They behave as if Biden is the problem. While it is true that he is in the grips of advancing senility and clearly incompetent to perform the duties of president of the United........