I don't think most people understood what the "status quo" was until Trump started destroying it.

Yes, "status quo" is billionaires, and monopolies, and low-level corruption, and so-on.

But, "status quo" is also civil liberties, a somewhat functional department of education, not having the national guard chasing down brown people in the street, a bureau of labour statistics that didn't invent numbers to please the dear leader, cabinet secretaries that weren't actively working to destroy the thing they were assigned to lead, low-level crony and nepo corruption and not over-the-top obvious bribery, and so-on.