One of the things that the Right has long suffered from is “Electionism”.
Which is the delusion that if conservative politicians win an election, the “neutral” and “non-partisan” civil service and bureaucracy dispassionately implements their agenda.
In fact, the bureaucracies are captured, and are the centre of the Resistance.
The Left has never had popular support for any of their major agendas. Whether it was school prayer, death penalty, busing, affirmative action, mass immigration, “free trade”, gay marriage... they never had popular support for any of it.
But it doesn’t matter. If the elites all agree on something like “free trade” or mass immigration, they control the institutions which make it happen. Regardless of what the public wants.
The implication is the things that the elites agree on cannot be change by elections.
And when there are candidates like Trump (or Netanyahu, or Berlusconi) who are actually not part of that system, the Regime tries to put them in prison.
Exactly. We’ve reached the point where we cannot vote our way out of this. Trump is more a protest vote at this point.