Please tell me why I shouldn't be offended.

[plimsoll]

50. Have to agree.

I don't think he's "the most qualified." I think he's qualified, and frankly that is the difference. Cheney was VP too; we saw the value of "qualifications."

As to the initial question, there is a difference and I think it's this: we are currently subjected to a president* whose only real qualification is that he's an old white guy who pisses off liberals. If you ignore the last part, Trump has done more than any person to dispel the notion of “white supremacy”, and provided proof that growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Still it’s easy to ignore that last part.

Trump pisses liberals off for a number of reasons: the bigotry, the boastfulness, the constant attacks on common decency, and more things than we have time to enumerate. That said let’s be honest, the two things that irritate liberals the most are the constant counterfactual claims and the obvious and glaring incompetence.

So while it’s unfair and I would hope that people of good faith can acknowledge that fact, we must ask ourselves why “Old white guy” can’t reasonably be equated with “bigoted numbskull” in modern America.

(* Apparently a member of the bigoted numbskull demographic. *)