"...“His chief promises were that he would build the wall, defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn’t done any of those things,” Carlson said, adding that those goals were probably lost causes. Trump, he said, doesn’t understand the system, and his own agencies don’t support him. “He knows very little about the legislative process, hasn’t learned anything, hasn’t surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn’t done all the things you need to do, so it’s mostly his fault that he hasn’t achieved those things..."
Tucker cherry picked Trump's goals because he hates Trump and chose the ones from the get-go that were going to be the most difficult to achieve. It is ignorant and biased at best, and malicious and stupid at worst. Tucker Carlson thinks that if Trump somehow finds a way to get people who know how to do "all the things you need to do" and becomes less outspoken and combative (nicer to the people who despise him, who turned the full force of government institutions to spy on him and his team and frame him in order to hamstring him and possibly remove him from power) then he is going to accomplish far more.
That is ignorance. Some might call that the language of the swamp.
Those days are long over. There is no "compromise" with the Left, because their view of "compromise" is to do what they want. We have seen how that goes. Our only way forward is to politically force things down their throat, and Trump is the person for just that because he doesn't give a damn if they don't like him. That makes Trump markedly different from every non-democrat who has run for office or held office since the mid-Eighties when the radical left began taking over the levers of power in the Democrat party.
As for the results of the mid-term election, that was standard fare and happens the majority of the time to the party holding the White House. To say that was a referendum on Trump is wrong, and possibly more in line with your last paragraph.
The mid terms weren’t a referendum on trump as much as they were on the House GOP.
They did nothing to enact trumps agenda.
Trump hurts his own agenda by 1. Not firing every Obama holdover on day one , 2. Not firing Comey on day one 3. Hiring and keeping staff that are not true trump supporters or support his agenda e.g. Nielsen at dhs, Mattis at defense, his dirtbag chief of staff, etc.
Those are rookie mistakes that have really hurt his effectiveness. Jared and Ivanka have not been overly helpful to the agenda either with their emphasis on democrat programs like child care, equal pay, criminal justice leniency.