Todd Simmons has repeatedly shown himself to be a hater.  A day or two after Justice Scalia died, Simmons trashed him.  And Simmons has posted numerous commentaries trashing Trump.

The interesting thing is that Scalia was dead, so Simmons was literally beating a dead horse and could not excuse it by claiming there was a need to influence public opinion.  Simmons' screed against Scalia was pure hate with no redeeming social value.

And with Trump, everyone knows that there is absolutely no possibility that Trump could get Hawaii's four votes in the electoral college.  So what's the point of Simmons repeatedly trashing Trump?  Very few people outside Hawaii read Honolulu Civil Beat, and people inside Hawaii will be voting overwhelmingly for Clinton.  

Maybe Simmons simply feels a need to scream, to vent, to preach to the choir -- and most of all a need to justify the megabucks Omidyar is paying him.  Simmons contributes nothing to public discourse.