Something that has been said over and over again is that

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3. The wealthy ultraconservatives funding the GOP are pursuing their goals through Rump.

By influence on a pathologically incompetent president, they have maneuvered their people into the vice presidency, onto the supreme court, into most of his cabinet positions, and into many other lower positions and judgeships. They have also persuaded him to adopt many of their policies and commit, as much as is possible for such a disordered mind, to their destructive anti-government agenda.

His election was a trumpster voter rebellion against their control, but a pathetically stupid one that they are making the most of.

Rump is being blamed by many for the failure of their agents in congress to gut social programs, but that one's really on their own overweaning greed and callousness. For years they managed to delude voters into transferring our nation's wealth and power to them and into cluelessly supporting the destruction of all the social programs they grew up with, but they have to make them want to jump off that cliff now that they're finally able to realize it's right in front of them. And that's a problem for them.