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Both. He's one of the most appalling people to serve in a public office in this country. He's a pampered, spoiled brat born with a silver spoon in his mouth that has spent his entire life detached and aloof from the actual struggles of everyday people as he's flitted between his ivory towers. He would have gladly joined the rest of the "coastal elitist" crew Middle America whines so much about in sneering down on the common folk if said coastal elitists had ever bothered to accept him in their club. They didn't, so he did the next best thing in becoming a faux-populist that pretends to care about the well-being of the average American, or at least a specific kind of American, while in reality only caring about how much they can feed his ego. He's completely unmoored from any semblance of principles and consumed by narcissistic delusions of grandeur. Routinely steps on people for his own advancement and engages in rampant abuse, both emotional and sexual, for his own gratification. Feeds off of making other people's lives miserable, especially the underlings that work for him. Has the emotional depth and complexity of a middle-school bully with the outbursts and temper-tantrums to match, since he literally can't let any criticism, no matter how slight, roll off his back.

Then there's his political side. He engages in large-scale corruption and favor-peddling while keeping his inner-business dealings as opaque as possible despite the need for transparency given the required separation of the presidency from his personal financial schemes. He's incapable of acting in anything even remotely resembling good faith executions of the public engagement role of the office and has instead turned it into a toxic partisan pulpit in even previously non-partisan, symbolic functions. He demands that people pledge loyalty to him over the constitution and laws that are supposed to bind the nation together under a common framework while simultaneously fanning the flames of discontentment over wedge issues that are damaging the social fabric of our nation. He's shredding our international allies' trust in us a reliable partner on just about everything and weakening our standing on the world stage, letting our geopolitical adversaries run circles around us since he's so easy to manipulate.

He's such an utter trainwreck on all levels that he makes people guilty by association for actively supporting him because it enables an entire partisan ecosystem that shields him from badly needed accountability. Worse, most Republicans seem content to normalize him, like he's no big deal, and have reorganized their entire party into a cult of personality dedicated to worshiping and protecting him. His terrible policies don't come even come close to being as awful as the cancerous mass that makes up his character or the corrosive effect he has had on the mentality of many of my fellow Americans who are embracing pure evil for the sake of political gain. This is what I have meant by what I've said in the past that my hatred for him goes beyond mere partisanship, the dynamic he's generated within our politics is a threat to the foundations of our society and its internal moral compass. In a sense, you can't really disentangle the politician Trump from the person Trump because they are exactly the same thing. He has no variety, he's a one-dimensional entity that corrupts everything he touches.

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