Alex Koponen Uh, like the last eight years have been good for America's image or economy???

I'm not a Trump supporter (I voted 3rd party), but any rational human with a modicum of education and/or a paycheck and bills to pay knows that the last eight years have not been good economic times in the USA. The Obama administration kept saying "the recovery was right around the corner, it's started but it will take time for you to feel it," but people never did feel it unless they were very wealthy or eligible for welfare programs.

And, thus, is the reason for the Trump victory. People are tired of the elite telling them that something is true and they should believe it simply because the elite say so, when their own good sense says it's not so. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride and Hillary Clinton was selling wishes on the half-shell while the rest of us were walking. I don't think Trump is the answer, but he won because Hillary was peddling fairy tales.