What this shows is that the US democracy is more fragile than I had thought.
I remember learning about the three types of voting systems, simple, preferential and proportional. Inevitably (and typically amongst right-wing crackpots), when they didn't get the result they wanted, they call for change. A classic example being (I live in Australia) the 1998 Election, where the crackpot who toasted trump's 2016 Election victory in the Parliamentary Courtyard with champagne, lost her seat. She scored 37.1% of the primary vote and while she scored the most of any one candidate, 62.9% of the electorate didn't vote for her. In Australia, we have preferential voting, and preferences went against her.
In Australia, anybody can be a member of a political party, and they can volunteer to hand out how to vote cards, that show how the parties and candidates preference the others. The major parties are Labor and Liberal. When you turn up to vote, nobody, not even the electoral booth workers, knows how you voted.
How it works in Australia is, a person joins a party and, if they've been a member for twelve months (minor parties are different) they can nominate for preselection. The branch of the party preselects a candidate and the winning candidate is endorsed.
When it comes to government, the party that forms government elects a leader, and that leader becomes Prime Minister, so, unlike the US System, the Australian Prime Minister is also the Member for a seat. The US President doesn't sit in Congress.
I wondered why people would be registered to vote Republican or Democrat, but then found that the reason for that is so that they could possibly be selected to vote in the Electoral College.
Trump has been a consistent menace and a consistent threat to democracy. He withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organisation (only an idiot would have done such a thing).
What trump has proven is that US democracy needs a revamp and the American people have to follow the Germans and say that they will NEVER AGAIN elect such a leader.