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I agree Biden was not at all what the country needed, but neither is or was Trump.
Biden did not have any clear message, any hope, any drive. He just... was there. Which would be okay for being president depending on the point in time, but definetly not right now, and definetly not 4 years ago.
Trump is much, much worse than that. Under Biden the US government worked and skilled professionals who make up most of government (because running a country is not only politics) were allowed to do their jobs.
Under Trump's first administration this was not the case, which alone should be immediately disqualifying. Entire agencies waited for weeks and months for transition teams that never came, the Trump team didn't even know what kind or number of positions they'd have to fill– and were shockingly unprepared to do so.
There is a lot of incompetency and neglect that went on here, which goes to show that Trump fundamentally does not care for the American people. If you're interested in what Trump did (or did not) as part of his first transition and why it was such a failure, I can recommend The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, although there are other pieces illustrating the point just as well.
As far as I can tell Trump had not figured out how to optimally extract personal gain (mostly monetary) from being president last time and used the discontent of right wing orgs such as the Heritage foundation and the people at Project 2025 with the ineffectiveness how his last presidency to learn how to that "properly".