But the system worked! Immigration and the economy consistently rank as voters’ two key issues. On immigration, the decades-long elite consensus was for more immigration, including illegal immigration. But voters successfully defeated that elite consensus. They voted for mass deportations, got a guy who has started doing mass deportations, and as of the latest Yougov/CBS polling, overwhelmingly approve of Trump’s deportation program (58% approve, 42% oppose): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opinion-poll-trump-economy-tari....

Voters being able to override elite consensus to effectuate change to make the country more like what they want is the system working!

I notice that you've retreated to cherry picking polls on specific issues now that Trump's overall approval rating according to poll aggregators is negative (in record time, in fact, with the exception of Trump's first term).

> But the system worked! Immigration and the economy consistently rank as voters’ two key issues

If immigration were the only thing this administration were doing we wouldn’t be having this debate.

The system isn’t working. We’re deterministically heading towards a world where we’re poorer and less secure based on policies (tariffs on Europe, Canada and Mexico) and people (Lutnick, Hegseth) that weren’t ever brought up in the election. Even if that had been campaigned on, the fact that the majority chooses stupid policies is an indictment of electoral politics. If the system “working” leads to its own destruction, it doesn’t work.