To any author/screenwriter that I've criticized in the past for creating one-dimensional villains...

...You know, seemingly under-developed characters who appear bad for the sake of being bad, who are completely unredeemable scoundrels, and serve as little more than a foil for the protatgonist's motivations...

...Characters who when watching or reading, you can't help but think, "Oh come on! This is piss poor writing! No one in real life is simply bad for the sake of being bad! There's always some sort of backstory to be explored, some way to understand what made them turn out to be the way that they are!"...

...You know, characters such as the Billy Zane character in Titanic, who locked poor Jack in the hull of a sinking ship and then pushed his way onto lifeboats ahead of women and children in line...

...Well, I apologize.

I used to think such shallow, unsophisticated bad guys didn't exist in real life. That people weren't actually bad for the sake of being bad.

And then Donald Trump became President, and it became so glaringly apparent otherwise.

For he is the epitome of a real life unredeemable and one-dimensional villain.