“But I feel like his obnoxiousness is really not why his political opponents dislike him.
It’s because Hillary Clinton lost the election.”
WHAT?! WHY? NO!
As someone who considers Trump a worse president than a fuming pile of plague pus, no.
(Maybe if by “political opponents” you mean the pro-Clinton DNC, or other Clinton fans, but that’s only one flavor of Trump opponent.)
* I think Clinton was a bad Democratic candidate, who thought she had the election in the bag. I think she’s a smarter, right-of-center pretending-to-be-progressive Democrat flavored Corporate/oligarchic tool/powermonger. She was however, experienced, intelligent, well-spoken, diplomatic, rational, and at least felt some need to impersonate and sometimes act like someone who cared about things like the environment, civil rights, reforms, corporate abuses, etc. Clinton was the less bad big-party choice, by about 200,000 miles, or more.
* Trump’s actions in office are what make him atrocious. Nearly every single one of his appointments has been terribly inappropriate, frequently a corporate or oligarchic tool designed to undermine the department they’ve been appointed to, or to do other kinds of mischief. He’s gutted environmental protections, passed massive corporate giveaways, and done horrible act after horrible act.
It has nothing to do with Clinton. I think Clinton would have been a different kind of problem, but one far, far less awful. Except perhaps for the possibility that Trump may inspire backlash and corrections sooner than Clinton would have.