would you rather someone who is terrible and competent or terrible and incompetent?
Far as I can see, that choice isn't on the menu. As I see it, the choice is between a compulsive liar who is very well-informed but still makes terrible decisions and a con-man who often manages to personally profit from the terrible decisions he makes…
It's why I said earlier: If I was a US citizen, I wouldn't vote for either. When faced with such a choice, the only possible course of action is to abstain, IMO.
I'm Canadian, so I've long looked at US Presidential contests as the most important elections affecting my country that I can't actually vote in so I've paid a fair amount of attention to this contest.
I despise Hillary Clinton. She's everything I hate in modern politics. She's compulsively dishonest, entitled, and part of a growing political class who have transformed the concept of 'public service' into a way of joining the ranks of the mega-wealthy. She has only a fraction of the political skill and ability to connect with voters that her husband has and seems incapable of doing or saying anything genuine that hasn't been focus-tested to appeal to this or that special interest group.
But if Hillary Clinton is bad, Donald Trump is even worse. He has all of Clinton's flaws: dishonesty, entitlement, corruption, etc. plus additional charming traits like emotional instability/immaturity and being a serial sexual predator. If Clinton represents the current unacceptably low standard of political life in the US, Trump promises to debase it even further…
As a Canadian, I hope Clinton wins because a Clinton government is likely to be more stable and somewhat better/more stable to deal with for long-standing US allies. But if I was a US voter, I sure wouldn't vote for either of them even on a 'picking the least-worst' basis...