Both, I'd say (they're not mutually exclusive), and that's why he's still out there truckin'. His whole act is to lob a bit of meat out, wait for the bullheaded and less house-trained of his critics to provide the other rings of the circus, then walk out being the one who looked cool and collected by comparison.

If his opposition wasn't so infested with people whose reaction to fundamental disagreement is canned lines and flailing, if he'd had more visible eloquent opposition who could listen and dissect instead of just labeling and discarding, he'd either be moderated, declawed, or have dried up and blown away long ago. It's practically a science at this point, but dimwits who don't know enough to keep their mouths shut and not become the fools keep on dumping in their half of the compound and watching it go "kaboom".

That said, it's hard to control a mob, and I do feel for the cooler heads that keep getting buried under the more loud and media-ready hotheads. That's a problem you'll get no matter what politics you have, and anyone who thinks that you can judge an idea by its assholes is a lazy moron.

Doubly so for citing those Black Bloc shit-disturbing assholes. I don't think there's a person out there with more sense of moderation than a toddler tied to a brick who'd suffer those imbecilic walking disasters gladly.