Picture any independent winning the US presidency. He’d have zero backing in Congress or probably the courts. While the independent might be wildly popular with the public as an outsider, the likelihood of him enacting anything and making it stick is very small. As you point out, Trump, nominally a Republican, fought every battle uphill and against the wind even with Republicans. That doesn’t mean I don’t want Trump as president. It means we shouldn’t expect miracles. The Argentine president might have fared better if he’d brought in the labor leaders and negotiated with them. He wouldn’t have gotten what he wanted, but then whatever he tried to do would probably have had a better chance of happening. Everyone gets frustrated that they never get what they want, but that’s the nature of politics. Trying something and losing badly sets the tone for everything to come.
History shows when the commies are in control and ruining a nation, there’s only one way they release their stranglehold on power.