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You're duped if you think the individuals are really at the head of everything.
Most of what Biden does is assisted by a whole bunch of staff; the Democratic party machine is firmly in charge and they love Biden the way he is. Sometimes he insists on doing things his way (poorly) but it never really goes against the apparatus.
Trump has handlers too, with lots of different factions/opportunists vying for control. He's also becoming senile, but it doesn't show as much. He was able to monkey-wrench a lot of the executive branch in his first term, partly because he monopolized the media and partly because he kept firing everyone, and the party didn't know how to respond. Now, with Trump as more elderly and having taken a bunch of losses, he doesn't have as much chaotic mystique, and the Republican party apparatus knows how he works.