«please explain again what was so bad about Trump?»

There are two different aspects to that:

* The politics: a right-wing "nationalist one-nation tory" in the tradition of Ross Perot and Part Buchanan, therefore entirely incompatible with the right-wing "globalist individualist whig" politics of the dominant business elites.

* The person: a "low-brow", television-infused, salesman profile, therefore entirely incompatible with "high brow" (and "middle brow"), printed-word, intellectual profile of the dominant academic and political elites (so perfectly embodied by Barack Obama).

As to the latter point:

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1351145008506798084 “What did we learn from the failed TRUMP experiment? (cont) Someone in office, like a High Priest of Baal, a Patriarch, a doge, a judge, or a mafia don, must observe a certain decorum & a certain ornamental deportment. This holds even more true in a secular democracy. #Lindy”

http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL1_A_1976_Article_04.pdf “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow by Russell Lynes”