However, I do think he’s fascinating, both in that he may be the perfect reflection of the American political body, and because he highlights fundamental contradictions in nominal American liberal and conservative politics that causes both his detractors and supporters to be extremely neurotic about him. He represents what liberals profess to be the ideal (coastal, urban, private school educated, Ivy League grad, made his money in NYC real estate; shit, any big money Dem donor clicks at least three of those boxes), and what conservatives profess to hate (urban, non-religious, elitist, arrogance), yet the former hate him and the latter love him.

This is actually an interesting point that I hadn’t considered. There’s a lot of analysis about Trump that sometimes goes a little off the deep end for my tastes but this is a good explanation for why he’s such a magnet of attention beyond just being a hilariously grotesque figure. He’s like a walking embodiment of contradiction. He’s like the Missingno of American political figures, a glitch in the simulation. The code of society took in all the correct inputs and yet spat out Trump. This isn’t to say that other politicians aren’t similarly contradictory in a couple ways, just that he manages to do it in many ways.