I truly hope I'm wrong in my opinion of him.

You're not. He is a sociopath, and suffering dementia, and a toxic narcissist, and a lot of other things (including incompetent businessman). My hope is that he will try to bully his way with Congress, and fail (yet again). He has put competent people in positions of power, and also several billionaires who don't know how government works (but have agendas to neuter various regulations). Whether the convict listens to them is another question. I hope he doesn't. I think we can survive four years of flailing aimlessly. I'm not so sure we can survive four years of ruthless efficiency in gutting the Treasury, removing worker protections, removing environmental protections, and the various other protections designed to protect us from big corporations (whom have vastly greater resources than you or I, and can only be reined-in by government).