Trump is president; Who is to blame?

[FatAndFaithless]

Blame belongs in a number of places, but I think Clinton and the DNC need to get the brunt of it. Clinton was an awful candidate; we all knew that, but most people I think at least hoped that Trump would be perceived as worse.

We wake up and ask ourselves what country we live in, and there may be more information over the next coming days, but I reckon the truth will come down to this: people care more about political scandals than personal ones.

And to be honest, that's the way it should be. The US already have had an (to me) absurd overemphasis on the personal life of their politicians, with presidents going on and on about how much they lover their family in political speeches, something that would be perceived as highly bizarre in most of Europe.

Thing about that is, the evangelical voting block in America has stridently crowed about family values and the importance of that sort of personal 'integrity' for decades and decades.  They skewered candidates on their personal 'immoralities' before, but suddenly with Trump everything is totally fine.  It was something that politicians had to care about for the last half century because it was always something that could get used against them.