People were shamed into not voting for him b/c the media made it seem like the apocalypse was happening every day and we just couldn't survive four more years. They were also bombarded with the idea that if you were considering voting for him, it wasn't b/c you liked his policies or simply preferred them to what the Dems were offering, it was b/c you were a nazi klansman piece of shit. When the media was allowed to spread and amplify a bullshit collusion conspiracy theory for three years, it is difficult to hang onto power. CNN's Fareed Zakaria did a piece recently about how Trump was actually pretty tough on Russia. That's nice, but for four years, his network, every other network not named Fox and most online news sources promoted the notion that Trump was Putin's puppet. It wasn't true, but hey, don't let anyone know til he's about to leave.

https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/opinion/2021/01/08/byron-york-now-media-tells-us-donald-trump-tough-russia/6569846002/

Look at the Hunter Biden story. 50 former senior intel officials all signed onto a letter stating that the laptop and its contents reeked of Russian disinformation. Sounds plausible, until the FBI came out, after the election of course, and said that no, it was real, and they'd been investigating it since 2018, but didn't want to influence the election. Two years, and they sat on it. Biden wasn't even a candidate when the investigation began, but he was thinking about running and had the best chance at winning, so it wasn't publicized, yet how many leaks did we see out of every dept. of gov't during the past 4 years and they were almost all anti-Trump.

As for 2022, It will be strange b/c people, especially in House races will want to pick up the Trump mantle in terms of policy, but not shoot himself or herself in the ass all the time the way Trump did. It should be interesting.