For a serious answer WRT the people who genuinely didn’t think this administration would act the way it is - in his first term, he was mostly surrounded by people who were competent and who respected the law & checks & balances. When they got told “kidnap people off the streets” they said “I can’t do that, that would be illegal”.

So the fact that these things weren’t done in the first term made people think they wouldn’t be done in the second term.

Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of people are incredibly uninformed about politics.