Much of the anti Trump perspective derives from very few factors.
1) A presumption that there has been no fundamental change to society. Folks think $31T in debt can be addressed if only we have some bizarre imagery of conservatism. It can’t. It’s permanently destructive. Math doesn’t care about policy. Society has failed and there is no fix. Ever. They think that if only they can cut taxes to $4T from $5T (20%) and cut spending to $5T from $6.2T (20%) that this is going to matter. It’s not. That’s still $1T of deficit (debt increase).
2) The only reason US population grows instead of declines, like many EU countries, is the influx across the border. GOPe folks think that is cheap labor and pro business. But it’s not. It is cheap labor and it is not pro business, because there is nothing that can be done for business when there is $31T debt. It’s over. Stop pretending. Population decline would be helpful, not hurtful.
3) If John Bolton had not obstructed President Trump, there would be full Korean reconciliation by now. He had his GOPe orders. So he obstructed. Again, it all derives from the presumption that American exceptionalism is the order of the moment. At $31T it is not AND NEVER WILL BE AGAIN. Accept this.
Once these things are understood, one realizes draining the Swamp is the only hope.
About 88 thousand per person. Sucks but I don’t think it’s insurmountable. Still it would take a real seachange of politics and thinking.
We also have to look at who we owe the debt to and is some of that debt perceived only and really artificial. Telling people that they owe collectively 31 trillion when maybe a third of that might be bogus can be a fear control device in the same way covid was. Still unfunded future liabilities is more a potential killer of the nation. Social security promises, military, prisons, and welfare future spending is some 100 trillion dollars of future “to be acquired debt”...though not being owed just yet.(I haven’t even counted the states just yet)
I suspect we could make a huge dent in the federal dollars owed if we put heart, will, and be willing to sacrifice a few things. There is a lot of money to be found under the federal spending “cushings”. The politicians and the current political structures of the nation are the problem...but they are only a problem in that they really are reflexive of their constituencies in the main. The people need a moral change in their hearts or nothing will save us!