...of the coming of the Lord.. He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword..."  Apparently you lack poetry, imagination, or a sense of the religious nature of the course of history.

Obama saved the Rust Belt when he bailed out the auto industry, including the thousands of small component shops that supplied the manufacturers. The Republicans in Congress seethed in anger over that, but it saved a million jobs.

Trump owes his base to the same Southern Strategy bigots that Lee Atwater rounded up for Reagan in 1980 and which every Republican major candidate has used since. This was a low-turnout election that especially hurt Clinton with Sanders supporters staying home - and by the way, Sanders didn't stand a chance as a commie pinko against the Republican propaganda mills. Finally, the last-minute s#!*-bomb that Comey tossed into the lamestream media really hurt Clinton, according to post-election analysis. Even so, Clinton won the popular vote by a 2% margin.