Trump is a symbol of the refusal by millions of Americans to bend a knee to the ruling class. From T.L. Davis at tldavis.substack.com:

I should have done this as a two-part post, I can tell that by the comments on the first one. So this is Wartime Consiglieri Part II. The first discussed the situation, the second will discuss the utilization.
First, please dismiss ideas of this being a discussion of the 2024 election or Donald Trump as a candidate. That just distracts one from the message. This is the way that Donald Trump is being used as a tool by both sides.
When the communists, the deep state or the administrative state (the cabal), whichever term you prefer look at Donald Trump, they see the backward, irrelevant, ignorant masses of taxpayers who might fund all of their activities, but who have no place in the functioning of the government, especially elections. They are simply the funding mechanism and when they don’t provide enough funds to deliver their governmental fantasies, they print more money, devaluing what small bit of change is left in the pockets of their enemy, the American public.
The reason Trump represents us to them is because we bucked the rigged election of 2016 and put Trump in the White House. It was designed and funded to make sure that Hillary would be in the White House. Trump is a symbol of our disobedience. This is why McCain was so eager to help substantiate the Steele dossier, it’s why when Trump won, half of the Republicans came out against him, because they get their power from the same cabal that rigged the 2016 election. No matter how bad a Democrat is, Democrats understand and cooperate with the deep state cabal, so they get a pass. Republicans like Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush, are allies, cohorts, if not actual members of the cabal, some are, I’m sure, but they won’t get the same preferential treatment a Democrat does. That’s just the way the game is rigged, to benefit them and them alone. A Republican might listen to the dirty-faced masses and that’s a risk to their power, an affront to their superiority over them.