Respect on a personnal level has to be earned you are quite right there, We respect ( or disrespect ) the man, but not the office he holds or you end up disrespecting your country.
We have had a lot more dud Prime Ministers down here than you have had Presidents full stop .
But they must always be addressed in the proper mannar for the office they hold.
Down here once their term is over they become plain old Mr A. Hole.
It was a bit tounge in cheek.
Sorry for opening a can of worms.
As for labeling people for the purpose of dengrating them that does nothing but reflect the lack of interlect of the accuser who is incapable of appreciating that others have a right to have a different opinion to their own.
I am regularly labled a Communist by people on this list , also a Liberal as if that is a crime, both of them a quite funny considering I have been self employed for better than 40 years.
Most times the accusers actually have no opinions, they just parrot some one else who they follow without question.
Personally I feel that President Trump is a sad enditement of the state of politics both over there and down here it is fairly well the same.
We just elected a racist to our senate, a man who regularly got drunk & beat up on the taxi drivers who were taking him home then used his political connections to cover up .