Your list clearly proves:
America has dangerous low standards
For Americans to become presidents
Don't you think that's the real problem here?
Yes, but not the root problem.
In my opinion, it's conservative indoctrination media, which has created such people by the tens of millions from the pool of susceptible minds. Those people are presently unfit to live among. They will have taken their smarter neighbors who can't get out of Trump's way down with them. It's just too soon for them to see that.
They can't anticipate what likely follows from their choice like their smarter neighbors can, who are now nervously sheltering in place during the calm before the coming storm, or else making plans to relocate. These unseeing people will have to be hit to know that anything is wrong, and even then, they'll likely misunderstand what is happening to them and why. They'll be less happy but won't see themselves or their choices as the problem.
Millions of the Americans who knew better are looking to separate themselves from these people and the effects of their choices. This describes how I felt and feel about MAGA America:
As I said, in my opinion, the process that generated those people is the root problem, and it began with the repealing of the Fairness Doctrine which could be called the root problem leading to the successful propagandizing of America, at which time America was mortally wounded and is only now dying from the consequences. The indoctrination won't stop, the susceptible won't heal, and if the House goes Republican, fascistic America has already intrenched itself in America for generations to come.
One could even identify a prior problem to the repeal and call IT the root problem: the failure of liberal America to successfully resist the repealing of that law.
And if the Dems hold the House this time? It's just a matter of time before the indoctrinated give fascistic Republicans the whole government.
People did not want to vote for "more of the same".
And they shall get something very different.
Generally, when one is dissatisfied with the status quo, one makes a change that he considers will be for the better. Some changes are for the worse. One has to accumulate evidence and analyze it properly to have reasonable chance of deciding in advance what the results of the change he makes will be.
Those that have chosen Trump in the hope that he will improve their lives don't know how to do that. Those that are able to process evidence and better able to anticipate outcomes are aware of what these people have unleashed.
It will be different, just like the MAGA voters hoped, but not for the better as they had hoped. Virtually every American that doesn't benefit from the looting of Americans about to come will suffer for it. The tax breaks given billionaires will come out of their pockets. The surcharges due to tariffs will come out of their pockets, and the cost won't be limited to imported products. When Toyota dealers, who have been competing with similarly priced domestic models, have to raise their price $20,000 on its imported cars, the prices will rise on those competing domestic cars.
One place people will really feel the difference is in missing disaster relief and legitimate insurance claims on real estate (and everything else) being rejected. What the American people need to understand is that their government won't be representing their interests under Trump. FEMA relief means nothing to the wealthy, and they sure don't want the riff-raff getting any of that money. That money is theirs as they see it. Insurers are nly there to collect premiums, not pay out benefits. They have to be forced by government to do that, or they won't, and this government is on their side, not that of the average American.
Obamacare seems doomed, so if you've been benefitting by affordable insurance without preexisting condition exclusions, well, adios to that.
So, yeah, look for something different. The frying pan was uncomfortable. Let's see where you jumped to. I'm pretty sure that I can tell you because I understand what Trump and MAGA are. I know their values, their methods, and their agenda as do millions of other people - billions globally. That's why they're so nervous and concerned about that future that MAGA voters have unleashed on them and the rest of America.
And the inability to do that - to recognize what a lying, thieving, narcissistic, antisocial, angry, vengeful, recently humiliated person will do to them once given essentially unchecked power - is why people turned to that in the hope that he would care about them and be kind to them.