Doesn't matter for me wether Trump is smart or stupid. What really matters is his policy's. And i dislike him a lot, because at the center he seems to be just lining the pockets of the rich class like many before him. I don't need the absurd US media show or the rediculous poppulism and political polarisation to be able to judge. Trump gave a big fuck u to any attempts at a climate deal, tried to kill healtcare, reformed taxes, and its not hard to argue that all this favours the rich class he seems to do it for while cynicly acting like he's "a man of the people". The coman American man couldn't have ellected more of a backstabber.
But then again, wether you ellect republican or democrat it won't matter much anyway, the wealthy class and wall street are the real power in the USA toghether with the millitary and intelligence elite, toghether they have a coman goal to fuck over the American people for their own interrests and presidential candidate's while they often sing a different tune typicly act as lackey's for them regardless.
And really, all it ever needed for the USA with it's 2 party system to become authoritarian was a deal between democrats and republicans to keep power devided among them and always favor the interrest of certain groups regardless, and to me then it's what makes the USA "authoritarian capitalist". The Trump show is just distraction to me, and it's conspiciously flooding the media with BS.