I am not sure what explains this apathy. I've said it a hundred times by now, voting out Trump to end the madness was just not an actual metric people used to vote by. It wasn't my only one, but top 3 would certainly be sending him home so he is just done. I know it's really dumb and silly to expect the republicans to do anything they say they will, but was there even a sizeable switch from them to Harris or nobody? It just doesn't seem like it.
So really the issues top of mind: the economy and immigration Trump just won. When asked what steps he would take personally to lower costs at the grocery store during a town hall, Trump launches into a story about something not even related to the question, and it never gets answered. I just believe the mainstream media did a terrible job to actually showcase these gaffes. I know there were many, but they just did a poor job of it and never actually attacked it, just pointed and laughed mostly. Where is the Mark Levin meltdown every Sunday evening like I'm used to from my mom's TV?
Abortion was big but unfortunately not big enough.
Anything else, including ending the madness, the grift, his personality, the fact he is a rapist, shits himself, etc. just did not matter. Him fellating a microphone days before the election didn't matter. The fact he does it again for some reason at an environmental conference in Sweden 2 years from now was just not on the mind. the MSG rally didn't seem to matter in the end either.
Though I am not sure the scope of Trumps support among republicans to see if anything mattered, I just know it didn't to any sizeable degree because he won. I just see a 15 million vote gap.