Frankly, I think the only seats he’d have a snowballs chance in hell taking would be seats that are currently red and upset at the disruptions to business. There are plenty of upset people in blue areas, but he’s not offering a meaningful departure from what they’re upset with, infact he’s probably an escalation of it.

Most likely he would just split the vote in red seats.

Generally yes, For me it depends on how significant the discomfort is and how broadly it impacts people, but also, how much doing the thing really matters a lot to someone.

Like, there’s a point at which “ok someone else’s discomfort about this thing is marginal compared to how much it matters to a large number of people” at which point I get annoyed at someone trying to force other people to stop doing something that matters to them, even if I’m not doing the thing.

Trump realizing he’s been played, and is terrified of his greatest fear, gas prices going up.