So, what is it that Trump should have done differently?

[Prof.Lunaphiles]

Because we have a system so corrupted by partisanship that the Reps won't do what is necessary for the good of the country. The failure of democracies tends to happen when demogogues get power from the populace.

The end is near.
The system is corrupted by political partisan strategies, because it is inadequately designed. The founders only had one simple formula, and a lack of understanding a full government security system; nor the sophisticated manpower, nor the modern notation formatting that is necessary for the better rendering and understanding of the government organization and subsequent legal code.
The Dems won't do what is necessary for the good of the country., because all they care about is blaming the Reps for not doing what the Dems should have done. It's a completely cyclic system that keeps the average citizens uninformed and easily lead by showmen.
There are scholars and political pundits describing that we are in a "cold civil war."
Suppose the United States fails - what happens next? Not sure? Need someone to explain it to you? Do you need the federal government to issue a warning system for you to know what to do?
It is not that difficult to figure out.

The first step is to offer a peace treaty to avoid an actual violent war; which is going to be a reorganization of the government. The design of the republic that you so dearly care about was for a much simpler and less diverse society - we need a new way of deliberating social issues that better reveals the truth and justifies the policy resolutions for those who believe that they are being alienated by the resolution.

It is a real shame that atheists are not collectively ahead of the curve on this. Most of the people doing the research and development of amendments, which are not going to solve the underlying problem of partisan strategizing and policy justification, are Christians, but none the less, they are doing something that is much more advanced then what atheists focus on in the government. And yet, atheists tend to champion that they are the better thinkers make no mistake about every couple of years when somebody publishes a study that atheists are more intelligent than theists, atheists have circle jerks at the Internet forums they frequent for companionship.

You have no idea how lucky you are that I am an atheist, and that I am years ahead of the Christians.

Should there be a civil war, at the end of the war there will be a peace treaty negotiated that will reorganize the government to better accommodate the deliberation of truth and justification of policy resolutions, because the thinkers will recognize that the 1787 Constitution, and the subsequent state charters are all chaotic, and lead the nation into a civil war; and the charters all need to be reordered using the modern technology that we have that the previous generations did not have. And we need to have a convention venue that gathers the diversity of people to the table to do what it is the non-whites and women think they can do better than the racist white slave owners.