Yes, things are so much worse now in a post-covid world, that empty bluster doesn't work any longer. And very few buy into the "white hats" nonsense as well. They either want results, they want top officials arrested and put into prison, they want wealth extracted from Wall Street and put back into the middle class, they want H-1B visa to be destroyed for good, they want legal immigration put to a stop and illegals punished along with those who hired them. And anything short of this is going to be seen as such a big failure that they no longer believe anyone in any party and will either shrug as it collapses or form their own resistance to it.One marked difference in this second term is how little you see leftists screeching over Trump. In the first term, you couldn't get away from it. This time? Crickets.
Most Trump supporters during the first term couldn't tell you what he was actually accomplishing but he made leftists cry so he was alright in their book. This time you don't even get liberal tears as a consolation prize. Now I'm seeing people burning their MAGA hats on Twitter instead.
Russia/China/Iran are playing us like a fiddle, dragging us down and using our own arrogance as their greatest weapon against us. And our satanic elites have no answer for it other than to print money.