The culture war between the MAGA camp and the wokeist coalition of crypto-Communists and bleeding heart liberals shows that the failure has continued for a quarter of a century.
So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.
America’s Achilles’ heel is internal. If it loses this war, it will likely be because much of the media, politicians, and even some of Trump’s allies do not fully understand his policies.