Did anyone ever imagine otherwise ? <| sep |> Usury sit uf u . Oh if <| sep |> That ' s actually largely why he would have won . The GOP basically made that word meaningless to a lot of Americans . They cried wolf so much about it that it stopped being a bad thing . Obama , despite being a socialist has an approval rating comparable to that of Reagan and Bill Clinton when they were leaving office . There is a very strong argument to be made that the DNC put Trump into the White House with their behaviors in the primaries . Both parties seemed to nominate candidates that embodied the worst criticisms of the parties this election and Middle America apparently decided that racism was less of a threat than corruption and cronyism .