I think any reasonable person would disqualify Trump from being a suitable president even if you looked beyond the personal history, and the ridiculous rhetoric, and you looked only as far as how he's running is current election campaign:
- the Clinton campaign has been able to predict his social media behaviour and goad him into certain reactions, and essentially create counter-point webpages ready to go for when he says certain things.
- his organization has no firm hierarchy and several key positions have been left vacant.
- they're in fundraising crisis, in part because Trump refuses to reach out to donors. When provided with a list of 20 key donors by the RNC to call, he apparently called the top 3 and then quit. That quality of being able to be manipulated and predicted by an opponent is an awful quality for a president.
- He's appointed and then stood by officials who end up becoming strongly negative news stories themselves.
- the campaign is largely at odds and in frequent conflict with the RNC. And this is the group with the most vested interest in helping him. It doesn't create much confidence in being able to work with a generally combative congress.
- Trump throwing his own officials under the bus in public interviews to save his own face.
- The campaign trying to get control of funds from the RNC that are not allocated toward presidential campaign spending, which is essentially the equivalent of mis-appropriation on the campaign level.
If you believe that how you run your campaign is essentially a litmus test for how you'd run the White House, I don't think there's any question that a Trump White House would be the most disfunctional in modern politics.
Hillary, on the other hand, is ruthlessly efficient and controlling (which is essentially at the root of the whole email scandal). Everyone is on message, there's no apparent power-struggle within her organization, she's killing it at the fundraising level, her ground game is massive, her social media is quick to respond but controlled in their messaging. The campaign itself has largely stayed out of the media except for the occasional accusation that they're actually too close to the DNC (which reflects poorly on the DNC, but not so much on her campaign). So yeah, I can see why so many people who naturally fear the power of the president hate the spectre of Clinton: she has the potential to be a damn powerful president... too powerful for a lot of people's liking.
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