What We Needed vs. What We Got

What we needed was an intelligent, sober, serious, thoughtful, articulate centrist or center-right president who would have corrected for progressive overreach without sounding like he's giving aid and comfort to the craziest corners of the right, and without indiscriminately saying a bunch of crap that sounds kinda racist and just inflames the worst parts of the left.
   I mean...it's good to get the 1-in-2-out policy...it's good to undo "trans" insanity, it's good to install sane leadership at the Department of Education, it's good to take illegal immigration seriously (not that Obama didn't). At this crazy point in history, I think it's even good--or less-bad--to get conservative judges on SCOTUS...which...well...two years ago I wouldn't have believed it if you'd told me I'd be writing that...
   We needed a serious, sensible critique of our recent, erratic, injudicious left turn. The PC left would still lose its shit...but its anger would lack genuine righteousness. With Trump, however, we're largely fighting dumb with dumb. Character counts. I reckon Trump's character and demeanor will turn off a whole lot of moderates who might otherwise have been lured away from the left.