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  I disagree vehemently. I hated trump for what he was, but once he took office and tried banning brown people from entering the country he gave me another reason to hate him. His response to covid, which directly contributed to hundreds of thousands more American deaths than if he had kept his trap shut made me consider him a mass murderer. Yes, murderer. He knew what effect his words would have on his idiot constituents, but he didn’t care if they died following his lead on covid prevention measures. He only cared about his image. Then he tried to overthrow our government and install himself as a dictator. Whether you choose to think of 1/6 that way is absolutely irrelevant. The fact remains that this was his goal and he took direct action to make 1/6 happen and to hold back the response designed to stop it.
  Theres a lot of reasons to hate Trump and his demeanor is the least of them. I won’t permit someone to suggest that the only thing wrong with Trump is his optics. The man is a traitor responsible for the needless deaths of countless Americans. THAT is why he is hated.
context: DeSantis will be taken much more seriously than Trump when he is in office.   He's basically a toned down more presentable version of Trump. >
  
  Is this actually true though? I understand that it’s in vogue to view him as a temperamentally moderate alternative, but his political positions aren’t substantially different. Would similar actions from his administration not receive similar coverage due to his milder communicative approach? I completely understand that Trump’s temperament was his own worst enemy, but I just don’t see how a substantial majority of the country would be on board with his Floridian posture on the culture war.
  Maybe it resonates nationally, I could be wrong, but it doesn’t seem like a recipe for national success. My assessment of the modern Republican Party could be completely off base, but I see it as a party motivated by social grievances that will be perceived as extreme by a national audience. Abortion is an obvious example. I am 100% convinced that abortion rights will be a defining issue in this election cycle and I fundamentally don’t know what the winning Republican message on it is. A ban is deeply unpopular. Frankly, I think anything short of the Roe v Wade status quo will be a rough sell in 2024. >
  
  The problem with trump was never his policies for the most part. It was his demeanor.