"Malevolence tempered by incompetence..."
I hate when people say someone is like hitler or a nazi. It's a buzz word. Even this jackwagon! Aspiring tyrant, I'd agree with. The only person that compares to him in modern history would be stalin. Notice I don't capatilize certain words?
Damning with faint praise, indeed. Like asking, which would you prefer, smallpox or bubonic plague?
I have often trembled at the thought of what Trump would be like if he were competent and/or curious and/or intelligent and/or disciplined to any degree. His intuitive grasp of how to be a one-man manifestation of the Internet is bad enough. But what if, say, we had a President Manifort instead ... someone who is equally corrupt and sociopathic and shameless, but also charming and relatively disciplined and better at concealing true motivations?
Well, put him in jail and see what kind of book he comes up wiith.