Trump does not get it. He got in because he defended the “deplorables,” the dispossessed majority of Euro-Americans. That meant defending things like free speech and the right to bear firearms. However, he seems to have the deluded view that if he makes concessions on the gun issue, the liberal/globalist establishment will suddenly love him! This is crazy, and shows Trump’s lack of strategic IQ, something which he has self-promoted himself as having.
He in reality has done little to save traditional America, but the establishment still take him as a symbol of resistance, so he must be destroyed, as a purely symbolic gesture. That Trump went to water on the gun issue is very easy to see from the saga of the headlines, where Trump supported gun confiscation without due process, making US law something like Australian socialist law: