It was 100% about personality and Trump falling into the trap they set for him.
Policy-wise, Trump was a good President with exception to spending. (Mostly)
His response to handling the economic fallout from Covid saved - literally - 100,000s of businesses from closing. Including the one I work for. If Hillary had been President, she would have done the same as Obama and gave all the bailout money to Wall Street and Central banks and **** everyone else. That is what Obama did.
Trump paid attention to the little guys.
But the left hate his guts with a PASSION. And the way Trump ran off his mouth all the time - he only INCREASED that hatred. Right or worng.
DeSantis won't get in the gutter with the fake news people... he will instead beat them at their own game. Once DeSantis obliterated the first idiots who tried to make him look bad during the hurricane - you see how fast the left media stopped doing it?
Now everyone knows just how well DeSantis handles the hurricane crises. The best ever.