We already had a term with Trump, and knew how that worked out. On the campaign trail, Trump also said what he intended to do. His dictator for a day fantasies made his malevolence super clear. His promises were entirely implausible. (E.g. I Will end the Ukraine conflict in the first week.)

And then there was project 2025 which described how the Republican party planned to dismantle federal regulatory bodies and neuter federal elections.

No. They said so. #IVotedForThis — They wanted to see brown children back in cages again. They wanted a Schutzstaffel to disappear the undesirables. They didn't care the patrician class was going to plunder the US treasury and its credit.

Of the severity-seven million American voters in who chose Trump, hundreds, maybe might be ignorant idiots, but most of them were malevolent. They still are.

To be fair, they're also under the influence of a massive far-right propaganda machine that dominates social media and television viewership. FOX News uses the same brainwashing techniques that were used on US soldiers in Korea.

I understand the Democratic party postmortem suggested it was more benign issues, (trans athletes) but then I'm pretty sure that part of the party is captured and controlled opposition. They have cause to present a biased analysis.