First of all, Trump is a businessman. Do you really expect him to take a stance against these big private defense companies such as Boeing and Raytheon? There is a big difference in what he says in the public, and what he practices in reality. No politician, whether he is Republican or Democrat has the courage to take on sectors such as Pharma and Defense, who are like parasites leaching the American society. Even medications for common diseases such as diabetes cost 10x or 20x more in the United States, compared to the prices in Canada. Trump didn't did anything to relieve this issue when he was the POTUS.
Independents can, and that's the issue. Bernie Sanders has been saying that he would take from the 1%, and take from these leeches that feed from society and he has not been getting the votes needed to get nominated for presidency let alone be the president.
This shows you that, when the whole nation pays trillions to healthcare (both medication and hospital bills) and while they are paying hundreds of dollars for insulin whereas Canadians and all of us in the world pay like 5 bucks at most, they are still not voting for the guy who would make it cheaper, and while defence is getting near 1 trillion a year, and while USA printed nearly 5 trillion dollars and only paid 1-1.5 of that to people and rest to rich people, they still vote for people like Biden and Trump, and not to people like Bernie. So maybe, they deserve it? Let them suffer? It's not my nation after all, if they make a mistake, it's their own mistake.