or maybe the guy whose character appears to be dumb is what he appears to be.
If he was implementing successful policies, we'd have seen them.
But here we are looking at the deficits you used to claim to despise, at a low growth economy which Obama created (and not the fast, efficient one Trump claims to have created), at an America without friends except among dictatorships, with a fractured country, a president who is self-dealing and about to be impeached. Even the American air is filling up with pollutants.
That's not genius. It's what you'd expect an idiot to produce. They are the same sort of outcomes that were experienced by Trump airlines, Trump casinos, Trump stakes, Trump universities and Trump's sub-contractors.
Sadly, he seems clever at convincing Joe Sixpack that there's a genius behind the conman mask. But what he has always done to Joe Sixpack is to con them, while damaging everything he touches.
I don't especially admire Joe Sixpack. It's not them whose interests I care about. They brought this upon themselves. I do care about the interests of the genuinely vulnerable people and things he has damaged.