Trump is almost certain to return to the White House in January 2025, because human nature is so easily exploited by those who have no moral qualms about inflicting massive damage on their country provided they themselves can benefit. Since the 1968 Nixon campaign, the Republican Party has increasingly targeted the low-IQ, the ignorant, and the racist/bigoted. This gives them at least 50% of the electorate. Combine this with classic populist methods (invent an enemy, pretend they are going to "destroy our way of life" thus creating fear and anger, and then ride the wave) it's evident that Trump is merely a symptom of a deeper underlying structural issue. In the end, Plato was right: democracy always leads to tyranny because so many people are so easy to fool all of the time.