Your mileage may vary but at least around the chuckfucks at work who used to try to laugh it off Kamala-style every time I criticize the current regime back in 2021 now either desperately try to change the subject or run off quietly. None of these people try to defend Biden and his bullshit, hell they don't even mention his name. For people who whined about Trump so much it's clear that their heart is not in it anymore. With every ever-growing grocery bill, gas pump fill-up, or utility bill their smugness has evaporated so quickly.
Looks like demoralization works both ways.
Yes sure, but you may be being a bit absolute about it.
Things go wrong when you have a government full of venal corrupt incompetents, but if you have a big reveal such as "The Plan" that the white hats have, it's useful to have someone on the inside producing all the right gaffes and mixed messages and waking up the normies in a controlled fashion. Both effects can be running at once.
Anyways, Biden just don't look like he used to!