Because they saw the other side doing nothing about the things they cared about, while also scornfully telling them they were wrong, racist, hateful, and stupid.
Trump could easily have been defeated by a centrist Democrat who focused on kitchen table issues not fringe social ones, and was able to discuss and debate them coherently.
That's clearly just your opinion and it's not something that makes sense to me. Nor does it explain why their supposed disappointment translated into voting for known criminal and fraudster who did even less for anyone.
Nah, nonsense. It was republicans who made trans issues big - because it rally their base. Same with abortions - republicans made them big topic and successfully removed them.
Centrist democrat strategybis what democratic party does, again and again and it just empowers hard rigt to move more right.
Stop constantly blame "the other side" for what republicans consistently do. Democrats did led the economy much better, they cause less debt. Republicans do the above worst and then they blame democrats.
Conservatives dislike it when things improve, again and again. They are in fact hateful and take pleasure at causing harm. The social issues is what motivates republican base.
Trump could easily have been defeated by a centrist Democrat who focused on kitchen table issues not fringe social ones, and was able to discuss and debate them coherently.