I haven't read that thread yet, but I don't doubt there is criticism to be leveled at the Hillary campaign. All that aside tho, with a normal candidate losing to one party or another wouldn't have been a major deal. John McCain made a horrible choice in Sara Palin, she was the low key version of DT when it came to riling up racists, and I thought it spoke to poor judgement, but with him at the top of the ticket, we'd have been ok. It would have been rough, and we'd probably still be in a recession because they wanted to close the auto plants, but hard economic times have been survived before. Romney, I didn't care for, but again, things would not have been catastrophic. DT is a whole different animal though. If a voter was savvy enough to have heard about the third party candidates, then there is no way they were able to escape DT, his hateful rhetoric and willful ignorance. Even if they hadn't heard of the third party candidates, there was no way to escape following the DT campaign, because the news coverage was everywhere, even on local news during the primaries. His riling up of racists, demonizing races, lying constantly, sowing discord and division, utter lack of knowledge related to anything concerning how government works - there was no way for any sane, semi-rational, semi-intelligent person to avoid knowing what we were dealing with. Either people were not smart enough to discern or too stubborn to care that the man was dangerous at his core and people voted in a way to put him in charge of our government.
I take particular issue with Christians on this matter who have put the SCOTUS and the potential for restrictions on abortion above any and everything else. His past and current behavior is full of every character trait that Christians are taught to avoid taught and use as a guide to discern someone who has poor intentions as best, evil at worse. Everything vulgar about him is being excused. I understand the politicians who want to hold on to power who only use faith and these things to manipulate Christians into voting a certain way, but that so many people were willing to vote for him in the face of his being incompetent, and surrounding himself with white supremacists, I just can't wrap my head around it. I have friend and family who believe there is a spiritual component to this, and that it's necessary for the US to decline as a world power. I don know about this, even though I wonder about how many Christians who are being deceived and the comments and arguments they have put forth to rationalize supporting him, but I'd be lying if the thought hadn't crossed my mind after the world markets started to crash the first night, if other countries were going to seek to diminish the effect the US has globally so that when we fuck up, their economies don't pay for it. There was even a question put to Obama to that effect today in Germany. I don't know how we got the perfect storm to elect him in the face of being shown that he is totally unprepared and unqualified and surrounded by people who are also totally unprepared and unqualified, but we'll see how it all pans out.
Edit: And I haven't been paying attention to your posts on this Ballscout, if you or anyone voted third party or whatever and are OK with DT being president, then this doesn't apply to you. But the people who enabled him to get elected AND are bitching about it now, they need to have a seat. There are already signs that the fallout behind this is going to be different. Bill DeBlasio has indicated that it has been inferred that if states don't do the nationwide stop and frisk that they have been told federal funding will be withheld. He said that there are laws surrounding this, that they can't withhold education funds for something not related to education for example, but the fact that that punishment is out there being floated is highly concerning. He said we don't have a national police force, and that locally he is going to do what is best for his citizens.
"Your ancestors died for your right to vote!" and then it's 
"You weren't supposed to vote for anyone but who we say!" FOH
