In a presidential year, actually in any year, we tend to forget a basic fact about American governance: What the president does or does not do rarely has any effect whatsoever on my daily life.
Or yours. None. Unless you work for the federal government, and even then, its pretty marginal. Hate to dent the drama of the presidential election, but let me suggest that while we are not necessarily wasting our time on all that, we might ought to glance down the ballot a ways.
When government actually matters in our lives, it’s practically never the Feds, much less the president of the United States, that moves to solve the issue. It’s the county and city commissioners, the tax person, the mayor and other locals.
The utility of government on individuals like us is actually a pyramid: Most of the mechanisms that touch our lives are at the bottom (see: trash pickup, stop signs, driver’s licenses).
A lot of that stuff is theoretical, or of no immediate interest at all, like bitcoin diplomacy with Nepal. There are also concerning things near the top, to be truthful: foreign policy, tariffs on trade and the like, and I do not mean to minimize them, but they lack the proximity of copping a building permit for your new garage.