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Considering he spent his entire Presidency constantly having roadblocks thrown up by grandstanding political rivals and being torn down by media, it's not as if he could have accomplished much of value regardless of whether or not his intended policies or goals were worthwhile or not (and I'm not even claiming they were).

But that's a level of perspective most people are utterly incapable of these days, because lol orange man bad.

Trump was pretty much doomed from day 1.

Not that any of that matters though. Most of the current problems with the US and the world aren't things that the President has any power over anyway. I'm not sure there's anyone on Earth who could "make America great again" no matter how hard they tried or how much everyone else in Washington was willing to help them. Most socio-economic problems at the moment are complex global scenarios that are nearly impossible to untangle on the national level.

And none of this is helped by the fact that the political system as it currently exists does not incentivize actually solving problems. The job of the politician is to say and do what they need to do in order to get elected/reelected, not to make the actual hard choices that are required to fix things. And voters are incentivized to vote for short-term benefits over long-term solutions that require personal sacrifice, so they will never vote in the best-interests of society as a whole. Especially when the expectation is that the voter-base will be informed and educated, while most actual voters are neither, and vote with their heart far more often than with their head.

So everyone pretty much needs to get used to the idea of a string of successive Presidents where each one leaves the country worse off than when they first took office, because that's the inevitable future.

Shit's fucked, enjoy the ride.