So you may not have read it and I beg forbearance from those who have....

In 2016, when trump became candidate and shopped himself around the election trail, I truly believed that he was sending up how awful the republicans are. This was coming off McConnell refusing to allow Obama's SCOTUS pick. Lindsay Graham just being himself. Gaetz, Cruz and all the others being disgusting politicians and human beings.

I didn't know a lot about trump apart from the stories in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone etc. Had never watched his show, never followed him closely, but I knew he had once been a Democrat and was friendly with the Clintons. I supposed that he was as rich as he said and so believed he didn't need the money. His whole shtick seemed to me to be putting the piss up repubs - illustrating how utterly awful they all were. And I was convinced that one day the job would be done, he would drop the pretense and drop out of the race having shown the repubs a lesson.

I changed my mind the day he openly mocked the disabled reporter and knew for sure that he was among the most awful individuals in the world. If anything, today I think he's even worse.