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It's hard to put yourself in the headspace of someone who believed in Donald Trump, and it's always surprising what each person's "last straw" was. Like, now that he hurt my business with tariffs, he's suddenly a horrible person. As though he wasn't a felon, a rapist, a bigot, a racist, a misogynist, a pedophile, a despot, an incestuous, traitorous, egomaniacal, lecherous, kleptocratic, lying sack of shit yesterday, but today he's gone too far.
As non American who knew who Trump is, but not much more than that I said "maybe he might make things better as businessman" back during his first term. As I learned more, I quickly realized he is really bad at business, he has no manners and all he did was divide everyone and made everything shit.
When he was running for second term I was devastated that Trump was elected like I was an American. I knew everything will go to shit. And it did. I just didn't expect he'll manage to fuck things up even more, divide everyone even more and he achieved all this in under 4 months. Also he commit a market fraud with the tariffs along the way and slowly turned America into a Nazi state. That I absolutely didn't expect.
I really wish people would stop idolizing business leaders as ideal government leaders.
The principles that make a good business are fundamentally different and often in conflict with good government leadership.
A business would say "oh that rural farming community? let's ignore them. They'll never make up more than a tiny fraction of our profits".
A good government, on the other hand says "oh that rural farming community is the breadbasket for the population. Let's keep them happy so the people in the cities can continue to eat cheap produce".
And this doesn't even touch the corruption aspect. A business leader won't likely have the morals to properly regulate their own business.
Businesses are run by dictators called CEOs. Why anyone would think a person who has spent their entire career operating as a dictator should lead the entire country is beyond me.
Often, some of the dumbest people in the company. Unless the CEO literally founded the company, chances are really high that they are a know nothing nepotism hire. Their only skill was being born to a rich and well connected family.
Even if they founded it, financial success and being disconnected from the day-to-day work eventually make even the most competent one-time founder delusional and incompetent.
The complexity of how things work calcifies at the time they stopped being hands-on, so they often think everything should be much easier than it is, because they simply don't understand how the company works anymore. International regulation, enterprise contractual requirements, evolution of new standards, etc.
And whatever empathy they might have had before is eradicated by their financial success, which literally affects how their brain works and makes them less empathetic to people less successful than them.
I've worked with both types. They both become the same over time: convergent evolution.
Founders are usually jettisoned because they have no experience of running a large business and are out of their depth once the business scales up to a certain size (generally not even that big: 10M/110M revenue per year). Starting things is a very different skill set than sustaining a large enterprise.