I predicted back in December 2016 that Trump would be minimally successful at best in terms of actual concrete accomplishments as President -- because a President has no leverage whatsoever over Congress.
Trump's term in office gave us a great glimpse of how this country actually functions best: with a President in office who is -- for all intents and purposes -- an unaffiliated independent.
That’s where Trump destroyed himself, he became affiliated. When he burst upon the scene his attitude towards politicians of every stripe was F’em all. He knew what they were and how much to trust them. Then he became a Republican and tailored all of his decisions based on how his Republican handlers convinced him it would play out politically. Can’t fire Sessions, Comey, Barr, Wray, Fauci, etc.,etc., etc. Can’t hire, can’t release, can’t affirm, can’t denounce. The republicans sold him a bill of goods from day one till the bitter end, “no new party, stay with us”. Trump had leverage, he just refused to use it. On 1/7 a denouncement of the election coup, the false flag capitol attack, Barr, McConnell and Roberts and a real threat of a 75 million strong new party would have changed the entire power structure within the party. Hell, it could have conceivably blown up both wings of the Uniparty. That is the only way DC republicanism would have ever changed. Now it’s all lost.