No, if the next one did absolutely nothing, they would be much better

No, we won’t.

Because it isn’t about his policies (and because it’s actually quite like turning an oil tanker, especially stuff like undoing tariffs).

Trump is a malignant narcissist. He’s a deeply unusual man.

The Democratic Party had one perennial fringe candidate, Lyndon LaRouche, who was dark-sided in a way Trump is. A really nasty, scary, creepy dude who fairly arguably ran a “business cult”, the LaRouche Group, who was held at arms length by the party.

It has had a few charming “political sociopaths” in the sense of driven people who can make arbitrary choices. It recently efficiently ejected a repeated power abuser (Eric Swalwell).

But nobody like Trump. People like him are rare (and dangerous when they achieve power)