That Donald Trump is the most consequential and important human being of our era can hardly be disputed, even by his most trenchant critics. That he has been a disruptor of a long-settled political and economic consensus is what makes people love him and hate him in roughly equal measure. As is normal with human beings, often the loving and the hating are related to self-interest: If you were somebody doing well from the cosy liberal consensus he has upended, you hate him. If you felt yourself on the outside, you love him. There are exceptions, but that is the general rule.
Trump has also been the most ruthless partisan divider of our times. This is one of the reasons that his fans love him so much: He has consciously driven the stakes of political battle so high that to support him is to be bound almost to his every act, or at least to make excuses for his every act.
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