If by "basic job" you mean cheating on your wife in the office and doing provocative lawsuits that are dead on arrival, like his lawsuit over the 2020 election, then yes, he did a "basic job," but that doesn't make him a great attorney general.
This is the key: you have to suck up to Trump 100 percent of the time. 8/10 is not good enough for the Republican primary anymore.
It's no surprise the Trump endorsement carried him to victory.
This is undeniable: the GOP is Trump's party. Nobody else is allowed to sit at the table unless they support Trump 100 percent of the time. Rand Paul needs to be smart and not attack Trump, or he will lose his job too.
All you have to do to win an election is suck up to Trump 24/7. You can be the most conservative politician on the planet, but it doesn't matter if you don't agree with Trump's agenda 100 percent of the time. 90 percent is not good enough anymore; you have to be a devoted Trump loyalist.
Constitutional conservatives can't win anymore, only MAGA loyalists.
He didn't kiss Trump's butt enough.