You don ' t type black . <| sep |> Don ' t push an unpopular outdated centrist establishment candidate who was reviled by people all across the political spectrum during an anti establishment populist race ? In the last 36 years , there has only been one President that was an Beltway insider . George Bush Sr . was President Reagan ' s Vice President and former director of the CIA . He was about as Establishment as you can get . Every other President was a political outsider . Ronald Reagan was known more for his movies in the 40 s and 50 s than he was for being Governor of California . Bill Clinton was seen as a hayseed from Arkansas before becoming President . George Bush Jr wasn ' t seen as the son of a former president . He was seen as a real American that the Left Coast Elites were ignoring . Barack Obama , the Hope and Change candidate , was a political nobody that only had 4 years as Senator in his national spotlight . Spare me the narrative that this election was somehow different than the majority of elections that have happened .