This whole campaign and election was madness. Realistically, only a very slim minority of Americans wanted to see either candidate on the ballot. America didn't want either one, but America wasn't given a choice. Of course such things would be going on even if Hillary won, and it would have been the same point that America didn't want her on the ballot either. Their hardcore supporters were the only ones cheering when they won the primaries, and only picking up the support of others who begrudgingly offered it. It's madness because one of the candidates is scared either from fear or over reasons that essentially boil down to the fact she's a politician and being singled out for things that apply to politicians in general, and the other candidate has a long and documented history of racism, being sued, sexual predation, stiffing investors and contractors with the bills while pocketing the profits, and for having incredibly thin skin (his campaign left me very doubtful he handles much business himself because it's been demonstrated he is very easy to manipulate). And it's going to continue to be mad, and extremely dysfunctional, because now there is going to be a massive defensive over preserving the gains over the last eight years. Pence is a severe threat to LBGT rights, and both pose a severe threat to immigrants of multiple nationalities, ethnicities, and even religious ideologies.
If the Democrats can play their cards right, stay several moves ahead, and play the role of mega-huge sycophant to Trump, they can milk Trump for his Left-positions, balk the Republicans, and set themselves up for a storming victory in time for the census and redistricting when the voting demographs change, and then cement Liberal values as policy in eight years when the voting demographs undergo a major shift as Millennials become a major voting block and the iGen begins to vote. If they do this right, and actually do that action thing (which is something they don't do so well with), they can turn this into a much bigger victory in the long run than if Hillary won, which would not have provided for this chance for a sweeping victory as major voting demograph changes in the Democrats favor begin to manifest and come to fruition. If they do it right, they can manipulate Trump, manipulate Republicans in Congress to help them and set them up to be voted out, and portray themselves as champions of partisanship while also playing the role victim of those nasty Republicans who don't get along, especially if they can put Trump on a leash.
But, that is the best case scenario and since so many are running around like chickens with their head's cut off it seems doubtful they have accepted what happened and began pondering how to fix it. At this point, we don't need to wonder how it came to this, we don't have the time to cry and whine, but now is the time to plan, and there is very little time before plans must be set into motion.
