Give this to your Trump loving relatives and friends.  See if they can read it and still give a cogent reason to support him.

Had Trump dealt more forcefully with Covid, even if the results had been exactly the same, we would have to be battening down the hatches for term #2. As it is, I'm preparing for this dumpy old man to resist leaving the White House. But we'll get him out. Oh yes we will. And I'm not counting out the 25th Amendment just yet...

I agree.  If you look at his approval rating average over at fivethirtyeight, the highest post-inaugural approval and lowest disapproval ratings he's had came in April of this year, when he was doing those daily briefings with Fauci and seemed to be taking the virus seriously.  He actually had his disapproval rating down to 50%, the lowest it's been since early 2017.  But he soon got bored with that and went off into his anti-mask/rush to reopen the economy tear, and things reverted to the mean.  I think you are correct that if he'd instead gone for a "we're at war with the virus, we're all in this together" message he would have gained popularity.  But of course that is entirely beyond his capability, as the only thing he knows how to do is create conflict, pit people against each other, and make some people feel good by belittling others.

If only he could (he can't) be a LITTLE less himself (he can't).

And, ya know, the f@cker still could win...!

He might still somehow find a way to confound those votes in the courts, but if the majorities are large enough for Biden, I think even that avenue won't work.