Why the pessimism about Donald Trump here?

[Wiz in Wis]

Perhaps I'm a fool, but here's my honest answer as to my pessimism about Trump.

As you've noted, Clinton had many many flaws. I voted for her with the full impression that she'd be a one term president and that the GOP would hound her with investigations, and probably would try to impeach her. And yet, I still think Trump is going to be a worse president. Here's why:

Trump has no real business acumen. Many of his ventures have failed due to simple mis-management. It's not like he took really risky ideas and failed. He failed at things most people actually succeed at. What he is very good at is marketing. He transformed himself into a brand, and then relied on perception to carry him to more wealth. But in terms of building anything, he isn't nearly as impressive as most CEOs. I mean, compare him to Elon Musk. Musk has built three businesses (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal) that literally came from nowhere. Trump took his dad's business and parried it into his own, but has never really came up with a new revolutionary product, service, or paradigm. He's about as good a CEO as Kim Kardashian is an actress. Well known, but empty and talent-less.

I think he's a much better campaigner than he is a leader, and as such, now that he has to govern, I am not optimistic that he will actually be able to accomplish much. He will be constantly distracted by his need to be respected/adored, and will not do the hard work of drafting policy and managing the executive. Eventually, the GOP will begin to eat itself, as all parties do when they have all the power, and infighting will erupt (you're already seeing it on foreign policy). The next two to four years are going to be an excellent example of too many cooks in the kitchen.

And that's before we talk about his vile personal behavior, business ties, personal scandals, etc. In short, we did have two bad paths last November. We chose the rockier path.