If you were in a town where lawlessness was happening because of some politicians that were groveling to BLM, those politicians would have been democrats or RINOS (though even most rinos had more self-respect than the dems). The thing that hurt Trump wasn’t the riots I don’t think. I think it was how he was stuck on the election (rather than not talking about it while pursuing it, and instead turning the bully pulpit to the problems at hand. I think that is what really hurt him.
In addition, I think that Trump should not have listened to his worthless advisors, but followed his own instincts, declared insurrections in all of these places where the riots were happening last summer, and sent in the military to quell the riots and arrest everyone involved (including the politicians). I think if all these bad actors been cooling their heels in Gitmo, this fraud of an election might not have happened.
Mr. Trump’s problem was that he was too nice. If he does run and win in 2024, I think we will see a very different President Trump.