There was a massive disconnect between what Trump was telling Americans on their television screens and what they were experiencing in their everyday lives.
[T]he Democrats' advantage is overwhelming. But Trump has pursued a policy of increasingly concentrating power in his own hands and circumventing both Congress and the courts.
[W]thout inflation and high gasoline prices ... Trump and his cabinet of brutally unqualified sycophants and the cowardly Republican Party would not have been punished so severely.
The Americans, and the West in general, do not see an "Arab moment" at all. They simply see prey, and they are competing over who gets to swallow it whole.