The sad thing is, the conservatives in this thread are so close to being right. They're right about the DNC's idiocy in misunderstanding the anti-establishment bent of this election. They're right about Hillary (whatever you think about her on a personal/political level) being a terrible candidate in a pragmatic sense, who was seemingly only given the job because it felt like "her turn". They're right about the nasty tone of the election coming down to a "corrupt criminal cunt" vs a "bullying bigoted buffoon", which led to a lot of Americans creating a false equivalency between the two and either not turning out to vote or snap voting for 1 of the 2 for pretty unsatisfactory reasons.
The only area where they are wrong is in painting Donald Trump as in any way the solution to any of their problems. Here we have a rich megalomaniac who has spent his entire life only caring that the system stay rigged in his favor (including through, among other things, donating to Clinton), who has misled the angry white working class into thinking he will fight for them, despite having no substantive policy ideas and a complete lack of understanding how the world works.
The American people want populism so much that they voted for the worst possible populist package. Hopefully next time around we can get a true progressive populist, one who can unite poor whites and poor people of color and help them realize how they're being fucked by the corporations of the world.
I'm a big fan of the writing my man Robert Reich has been doing on the election, some of it was pretty prescient:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-why-white-working-class-abandoned-democratic-party
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_revolt_of_the_anxious_class_20151215
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-so-many-americans-fee_b_7150874.html
https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/robert-reich-the-end-of-the-establishment/
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1361848173827775?pnref=story