Only one of the "sides", at least in theory, is in control of all the branches of government, and thus should probably be doing something with that power... like, perhaps governing?
Responding adequately to a predictable natural disaster counts as governing, right?
Maybe, relative to other disaster relief it's going really well? Maybe it's terrible. I sure as hell can't tell from what the media is saying (probably because they don't know either).
He won because he understood how greedy and lazy and weak his opponents were and he didn't have the tact to avoid attacking them, sometimes incredibly personally. But look at how ugly people get in response to him, all while thinking they are the "good guys".
It should disturb the hell out of people. It's hard to understand how we're not going to go over some kind of edge without serious change. We are a society of delusional narcissists which reward delusional narcissists.
That's what American politics is today. It's not "how can we make things better" it's "how can I spin this to help me in the next election?"