It's deeply troubling to me the extent to which large swaths the left seems to have lost sight of the fact that Trump is actually exceptional in his badness. There's a real "we mustn't put out this fire until we address the structural deficiencies of the house" mindset.

That the horrors of Trumpism are ones that the neoliberal status quo makes possible does not reduce the fact that he is an existential threat to multiple marginalized groups in a way no other President of the last hundred years has been.

Nor does capitalism's baseline exploitation change the fact that Trump is a full-out kleptocrat.

There are worse things than run of the mill neoliberal capitalism and one of them is President.

Like, thought experiment: how many minorities become hyper-vigilant when they see someone in a Biden hat walk into the store they're in?

Because the answer for Trump is very fucking high, and that should probably be a factor in how you compare the two.