I definitely agree with you in your assessment that he doesn’t do himself any favors. He is arrogant and abrasive. He always has been. I don’t think even the biggest Trump supporter could argue that. I also agree with you that both sides think they’ve never done anything wrong, which simply isn’t true.
MAGA people are already on edge and think the fix is in from 2020. I’m not going to debate whether that was a legitimate election or not. I honestly couldn’t say. But you take a group of people pissed off from that then charge Trump, who really has become a symbol for them, with a crime no one has ever been charged a felony for, and it cements in their mind the fix.
Many people don’t know that one of the biggest reasons the south seceded was because Lincoln was not on the ballot in the South in the 1860 election. At all. And when it was announced that Lincoln was President, an abolitionist Republican who no one in the South had heard of, that was the tipping point for the Civil War.
We absolutely are teetering on this. I don’t think it would be an actual war because I don’t see the left having the grit to do so. War doesn’t lend itself to an entitlement philosophy. But we will see violence. Something is going to have to give.