Loggerheads

Saturday driving home from church, I got into a verbal tussle with my better half. Someone who we know as very smart but my son mentioned that he was a Trump supporter and that set me off.I went off on how that brought them down in my estimation because, in my book,anyone with a modicum of intelligence could not possibly think he is capable of being in control of the nuclear codes.My husband felt that it was unfair to judge people based on their preference of President and that it was a reflection of only a fraction of  who they were and what they stood for. But I am still convinced that this election cycle flew in the face of every norm in place and therefore my basis for judging people holds good. I asked a close friend about this and she basically agreed with my husband. Dang!!!
And then it struck me. I know why I think I'm right. Now that the unimaginable has happened, looking back  I can understand people wanting to shake up the status quo. When you feel that things are not going your way, and have not in a long time you obviously want change. I completely get that part. And I will concede that the Democrats weren't promising to do anything at all for this demographic. Looking for alternatives was perfectly justifiable. But settling on what they settled on was wrong on two different counts.
One,the candidate held no promise whatsoever. What has he done that would ever convince anybody that he could be President? Is being a real estate developer qualification enough? How does being successful in that business translate to being successful in running a country? How did it convince such a huge number of people? It makes me want to question the intelligence( see, I circled back to that....)  of the populace that voted him in.
Secondly, in the three months since the Republican national convention,he dialed up his racist , bigoted rhetoric and so many misdeeds have come to light and it seemed to me that even if people thought him capable,his lack of scruples which was amply demonstrated in the last three months would have given people pause. But no...they just marched right on. Which again reflects badly on the people who voted him in. If you were willing to vote for him, it means that you agree with him by extension and are therefore racist, bigoted...the list goes on.
Either way, whatever your persuasion,to consciously vote for him will come back to haunt you.
My issue again is not about his capability to govern thus country...you can be a virtual rubber stamp and let your coterie do the governing.
My problem is that, with his demagoguery,he has legitimised things that it took years to sideline in society....things like discrimination based on race, sexual orientation,skin color.
Today I read about a West Virginia official who commented on how relieved she was that a classy, dignified, beautiful first lady will occupy the white House instead of an ape in heels.
If a barely educated,baring all model whose assets have been viewed the world over ,someone who cannot put a grammatically correct English sentence together,someone who plagiarized a Harvard educated first lady's quotes,is some how is better than said Harvard educated lawyer,then do you understand my  frustration with the people who voted this demagogue in? Is my  anger justified? And this not from the barely educated blue collar American , but a county official who, I am assuming has enough education to have gotten to work at the county level. So all those latent feelings are bubbling up the cauldron and spilling over and who will contain it? Definitely not the one who fanned the flames in the first place.
So am I justified is assuming intelligence does not equal logical reasoning,a sense of fairness or even a sense of justice? Tell me.