Short of David Duke burning the spiritual Reichstag and sucking the divinity from Paul Ryan's chesthole, I can't imagine someone more odious than Trump making center stage.
Not now. But I do wonder how often people have thought that in the past. People always paint the current opposing candidate as the worst to date. I'm curious to see if Trump will remain that beyond the next election cycle.
First election I paid attention to was Bush vs Gore in 2000...
2004 was worse. Not because the candidates were actually worse, but because I couldn't believe Bush got fucking re-elected.
2008 was how the fuck does someone like Palin have a career in politics at all, no less being a vice presidential candidate. I don't even remember much about McCain, because she was too bizarre.
2012 was Romney is the slimiest motherfucker I've ever seen in my life. It was like watching Wormtongue run for president.
2016 is Trump. And if Romney was slime, Trump is napalm. I can't imagine a worse major party presidential candidate, but I've been proven wrong 3 times in a row now.
2020 I can only guess will be a perpetually drunk guy with a confederate flag baseball cap and a monkey Obama t-shirt, who never leaves his motorized scooter with a mounted gun turret. At debates, he literally just screams, and waves his gun turret back and forth at people.
That's not true, neither Romney nor McCain were popularly considered worse than Bush, except perhaps by uninformed middle school students parroting second-hand info.
Maybe not McCain, but Romney was pretty intensely reviled. He didn't put off stupid like Bush or Palin, or shock value like Trump. That's because he had no personality at all, but his history was nothing but corporate fuckery. So when you watched him speak, you knew this, and the way it subtly rolled off of his persona made you feel like the Koch Brothers were slowly drooling into your ears.
Romney was actually the turning point for several conservatives I know, when they decidedly abandoned the republican party and labeled themselves libertarian instead.