Your perplexity is a part of the correct answer. I’m but a foreigner observing your Four Mile Circus with interest, so I'm glad to not be obliged for voting there, for both sides leave a lot to be desired, maybe Lot’s wife (tee-hee).

Trumpism, seen from Near Afar of the America, is only a symptom of the deepest societal crisis since the Great Depression; the Dem Party, especially neocon wing, proudly shares their part of responsiblity for this, and for erosion of the American Republic on its path of (failed) transition according to geopolitical reality of the day.

That is to say, quite possibly Trump’s victory, be it first or second one, is not an anomaly and a statistical spike protruding below the surface, but instead, “interregnum” of Biden-Blinken-Harris administration had been.