The GOP establishment, which the Federalist Society that now controls the SCOTUS represents, never liked Trump.
They spent decades turning their base into conspiratorial, counterfactual nitwits through the media they own because then they could easily tell them "climate change isnt real! Give rich people all the money! Poor people made bad decisions!" etc, and rob everyone blind to thunderous applause and their nitwits defending the owner's grift from the rest of us.
Then one day a notorious opportunist got up on stage, said the quiet parts out loud, co-opted that engineered willfull ignorance, and stole their nitwit brigade right out from under them. Remember, the turning point for Trump was the day he told the crowd he'd like to take protesters out back and "beat the shit" out of them. Prior to that he was hiring extras to attend his rallies.
The Machiavellian Mitch McConnells and John Roberts have been quietly seething ever since. Trump makes them feel dirty because he embodies the crassness of the con they've been leading their nitwit voters around by from a sterile distance. Their crass nitwits aren't supposed to bleed into their halls of power! Their careful, coordinated long game grift compromised by a 2 bit snake oil song and dance grifter.
"You whippersnappers don't know null! When I was your age... it was actually quite temperate and lovely here. I'm sorry, kiddos.
Now don't forget to put those exo-masks on nice and tight or else you'll catch your death of fire lung, and this isn't the Bezos Elysium Station, we can't just afford to clone you new ones!"
I wouldn't have trusted Fred Rogers with a billion dollars, and he's practically the only famous stranger I could have seen trusting with my newborn alone.
It's a society warping level of wealth. No single, unelected, unaccountable person should possess that much uniltateral power.
The global allowance encouragement of such an exploitative, reckless goal is why we are in our various bleak situations.
I see it as my sacred duty as a peasant to undermine the profit of my workplace wherever safely possible.
When the class war is long lost and one is living under class occupation, guerilla tactics become the only option.
We didn't set these hostile terms, American employers chose to treat their workforces as disposable liabilities rather than valued partners who all stand to prosper (as many once did prior to the Jack Welch/Reaganomics cultural grift), but we can sure as hell game and undermine them.
The people most confident in their competence tend to be the least competent in practice.
The Dunning–Kruger effect.
Self-cheerleaders tend to be morons, the most intelligent people by their nature tend to second guess their own abilities. Idiots just stroll through life taking whatever credit they can grab.
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”
-Socrates
"Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.'
-Donald Trump
See the difference? By genuinely doubting, aka examining your abilities, you are in more competent company.
"Amongst Israelis, 69% of those killed were civilians and 31% members of the IDF. The number of Israeli civilians killed, from attacks by Palestinian armed groups or individuals, has declined steadily, peaking in 2002 at an average of 22 deaths per month, and dropping markedly to an average of one civilian per month in 2007. 6/
In contrast to Israeli figures, however, Palestinian civilian fatalities have remained high. Palestinian civilians, killed by Israeli security forces, peaked with an average of 35 deaths per month in 2002, and again in 2004. In 2007 they dropped slightly to an average of ten civilian deaths per month."
Both sides kill civilians with abandon, and Israel is markedly better at it. Major media doesn't seem to care very much about Palestinian civilians though.
You make a hardware store with knowledgable, helpful, well paid staff, ethically sourced quality products, and sell hammers for $20 because that's what your buying power at your scale allows you to turn a reasonable, sustainable profit on.
Walmart pays overseas slavers to make 10,000 hammers at $1 each and they sell them at the new Walmart that just moved in for $7. Customers need to find it themselves because the employees correctly don't give a shit as they're paid shit.
Sadly, us peasants have proven, given the opportunity and out of necessity, we will support Walmart and their $7 slave labor made, slave labor sold shit hammer, before supporting a local business with ethical business practices selling a $20 hammer, even at higher quality.
Oh and after Walmart has put main street out of business with $7 hammers, they'll raise that price to $18 and pocket the difference, as was the plan.
Integrity costs more to deliver than exploitation, and the less you have the less you can afford to support integrity in business. That's why most of America's main streets are shadows of their former selves, that degradation started far before Amazon and internet shopping started doing to Walmart what Walmart did to honorable entrepreneurs.
Americans sure do love a "great deal." over time though, those great deals cost us all more than we could imagine. We never considered the inevitable outcome of those great deals we got by dealing with amoral, exploitative businesses. We were so short sighted that we just assumed that those amoral businesses willing to hurt anyone from employees to suppliers still had the customer's best interests at heart. We thought we were in on the hustle with those $7 hammers, when we were just another mark.
Reminder, prior to the 1980s, America largely had an entirely different and actually equitable business model, even in large corporations: Customers first, employees second, investors third. This makes sense because if customers and employees are unhappy, the business will fail. It was well understood that happy customers + happy employees = investors make money and are happy too.
Then the greed class, led by people like John Francis Welch, apt last name, and sold by mascots like Ronald Reagan, waged and won the class war handily by convincing the laborers it would be unseemly to engage in class war while they were economically slaughtered. Unchecked greed went from being acknowledged as the vile personal failing and personality deficit it is to being America's core cultural value, one we've been exporting globally ever since to my shame by association. The George Baileys appealing to basic humanity were snuffed out, and we now all live in Pottersville on Pottersearth. (These are It's a Wonderful Life references, for the uninitiated)
Now business priorities are defined by truly sociopathic capital markets, and the global business model is now investors first, investors second, investors third, and fuck you your position was outsourced to an 8 year old slave child in Bangladesh so I can pocket an extra dollar lol.
That's why you're miserable as an employee, and why you can't get service worth dogshit as a customer. Blame the capitalists who decided to cannibalize their own societies and planet for short-term profit. The ones that were already making a lot more and living larger than their employees, but demanded to live like modern Pharoahs on humanity's back.
Because it's worth you subsisting in fear and uncertainty, unable to afford to actually live a decent life, to travel to places and have experiences, so that the big mega yacht an oligarch commissioned can have a slightly smaller support mega yacht to tug it around and go where the big mega yacht is too big to fit. Priorities, duh!
My big ex left me for a rich guy customer she met at work selling high end watches, who dumped her a couple years later. She's now fat and alone at 40.
Her once traumatic "you know this hurts me too" parting line puts a smile on my face now. Sometimes following your exes is fun.
Oh sure, when a 3 year old does it it's cute, but when WE do it, it's "dissociative identity disorder."