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 Originally Posted by spoonitnow
No matter what people think of his policies (or lack thereof), there is no denying that his win was absolutely impressive.
It's actually more impressive that Hillary managed to lose to him, given how unpopular he was. You can argue that Hillary was a really strong candidate because she was 'prolific' (whatever you mean by that, I guess 'high profile, experienced?'), but aside from that she had nothing. No new ideas, barely dragged herself out in public, spent half the time she was in public fainting or rolling her eyes at balloons.
A fairly large proportion of people who voted for her weren't thinking 'yay Hillary' but instead 'boo Trump.' That would certainly have been my sentiment had I been a voter.
And a lot of people who voted for Trump also would have voted for anyone who wasn't Hillary, including Bernie.
The 2016 election was like no other in recent history inasmuch as it was basically an unpopularity contest, and Hillary won by a few thousand votes in the rust belt. Trump made it close by being Trump, but seriously, anyone decent could have beat either Hillary or Trump to a pulp.
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