«A fair amount of people have always found him to be another big grifting dumbass trying to bloviate by on his inheritance and fake sounding last name.»

Ah sure, but that is simply trying to explain why he was "bad", not "so bad". Those people despised him, but did not and still do not suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, they don't say "literally Hitler", "threat to democracy itself", and streams of character assassination and distortions of whatever he does and says, including describing him as both a childish idiot and a monstrous conspirator. Your low-brows merely “were repulsed by him since his gawdy appearance in the '80s”.

Consider this deranged example instead, of thousands and thousands:

https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2017/05/speak-truth-to-power.html «The one thing missing from the typical NPR talk show is truth, naked, raw, unqualified, unapologized for truth. In the discussion today, the guests were being asked to speculate on the reasons for certain of Trump’s recent statements and actions: the congratulatory call to Erdogan, the invitation to Duterte, the rather unanticipated statement that he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong-un. Why would Trump speak in this way about rulers who murdered their own countrymen, even their own relatives, rigged elections, oppressed opponents, threw reporters in jail? One after another, guests speculated that Trump was trying to upend long-standing American foreign policy, or was speaking thoughtlessly, or had some hidden negotiating strategy in mind. To each of these guests, Johnson responded courteously, respectfully, clearly signaling that these were just the sorts of sober, serious, thoughtful comments he wished to encourage. Then it happened. One of the guests, I do not know whom it was, said quietly, “I think it is envy.” Johnson erupted almost before the words had been uttered. In a loud, flustered voice, he burst out, “But you cannot mean that you think he would like to do those things! But, but, but, surely you do not mean that.” Johnson went on in this way, speaking over his guest, who was trying, so far as I could hear, to say “Yes, I think that is just what he wants to do.” It was so manifestly, obviously, undeniably true, and at the same time so nakedly partisan, that it made Johnson’s head explode. It was, in its simplicity, the truest thing I had ever heard on NPR.»