Sigh...but since you asked sincerely, here's the view from the cheap seats:
For my own part, let me first make sure to acknowledge that I don't think the Trump Presidency is all bad for the country. I do pray for him, his family, and his decision-making - and I can think of some rather healthy outcomes of his presidency off the top of my head - for example :
- - he has been consistently pro-life in relationship to the abortion issue,
- he has appointed numerous more conservative justices and judges, which for a generation will help ensure things like religious liberty and traditional and constitutional values are kept in tact,
- he has taken a number of steps to uphold and enforce the rule of law, especially within our immigration system,
- he has advanced a pro-business climate that I believe has contributed to economic growth and low unemployment, providing jobs for those in need.
I generally have less concerns with him in a policy sense. However, some of his actions as President are alarming, destabilizing, and I may represent potential threats to democracy. For example, he has regularly undercut the rule of law by calling for the jailing of political opponents and pardoning of political allies, by intimidating, firing and/or forcing out those who have been charged with upholding justice - mainly because his actions were under investigation. He also has exhibited a concerning authoritarian bent (and affinity with authoritarianism elsewhere), and a general disregard for democratic norms (e.g the emergency declaration to fund the wall) that will undoubtedly come back to haunt Republicans when the shoe is on the other foot (I recognize Obama's tendency to rule by executive order already started the slide toward the "imperial presidency"). He seems overly impetuous and intuitive, and I am concerned by the general global instability his erratic foreign policy and world economic policies seemed to have brought about. Finally, I am very concerned with the long-term effect of the tremendous debt that his unfunded tax cuts (compounded by exorbitant military spending) have brought about, and the widening gap between societal haves and have nots (again, a trend that started under Obama & Bush).
Ultimately, my main issue all along with President Trump is not that he's a Republican (I know folks like to understand it that way), but that he is just a very poor presidential choice - who temperamentally, integrity-wise, morally, and to some degree ideologically is poorly suited for the role of Chief Executive and leader of the world’s most powerful democracy. This is a perspective many thoughtful conservatives I have read seem to share. I think the electorate (of which I'm not one) can do much better than this. I honestly hope they get better choices in the future - and that they choose more wisely.
I suspect that in some ways we are not that far apart from each here Robert - and I'd be happy for your perspective and push-back.