Whatever Trump owes his base to, it wouldn't have mattered if Clinton had A) Ran a better campaign or B) Hadn't been HRC. The low turnout was precisely because she couldn't inspire the same turnout Obama did in 2012. Sanders may have indeed lost, we'll never know of course, but it almost certainly wouldn't have been due to low turnout. He never had a chance to get the Republican propoganda mills due to the Clinton propoganda mills and the servile DNC. Servergate was Clinton's to own, sheer stupidity(but mostly arrogance).

The popular vote is meaningless, the campaigns are tuned to win the Electoral College.

I 'll leave the recycled "poetry' and whimsical imagination to you, I couldn't compete.