Donald Trump is NOT the cause of Conservatives starting to fight back. He recognized and voiced the disgust and anger that Conservatives already felt! And he gave permission for fighting back.
He was an effect, not a cause. And the Left has been very slow to understand that. It is much more comfortable for them to write all this opposition off as merely hero worship of Trump or some cult of personality.
But it’s a lot worse than that for them. And the Left is just not looking very hard at themselves or at the countries mood. They simply are not reading the room very well.
Trump did not cause this movement, he just rode in on it. And people on the Left don’t want to address that issue because they don’t want to say that they have been doing anything wrong–it’s fr more comfortable to just tick one’s nose in the air and say that the Right just got bamboozled by a demagogue.
But that is simply not true. What Trump is basing his actions on are real issues for most people.
The Left is in the wilderness right now. And they will stay there until they successfully come to grips with the reasons why they went there in the first place.