I don't think it is rhetoric.
I fully believe that Donald Trump is a really awful person, a huge narcisist with fascist tendencies.
And it is Trump the one that did more to convince me of it.
I have tried to understand what his followers see in him to make them ignore the kind of person he is.
Many people vote for irrational motives. I refuse to think that most or all of his voters do so.
But I'm finding it increasingly difficult to avoid it.
Humans can be really dumb, hateful, terrible creatures.