Re: Evil Witch
Seen from abroad, last elections were quite interesting.
On one side you got a Democratic Nixon-like candidate, obsessed with the idea of becoming president one day at any cost, trying over and over, hoping to succeed one day, despite trying as an ex-president wife (something that you thought happens only in Africa or South America), despite her failures as Secretary of State for lack of real competence, and with a party all bent to the Clintons, unable to offer real alternatives to challenge her. Her attempts to look like a plain simple person were ridiculous as well, you need to be a real con artist like Trump to achieve it.
On the other side you got an elderly, vulgar, ugly Republican Kennedy-like candidate. Women- and sex-obsessed. Beautiful trophy wife, invasive family, very cunning in telling people what they wanted to hear, and in exploiting media. Able to pretend to be a a self-made man (without being) on the common man side, while being a rich man on the richer ones side, and someone who obtained his money in many shady ways, often gaming the system, which is his only real skill.
Only things in common: both married their daughters to someone from the real estate/financial mafia of New York, but the only ones who took them where the sons of people with criminal records... Clinton got her aide married too, that didn't help her at all....
Frankly, both ugly and highly incompetent candidates. It there was someone who could have made Clinton win, he was Trump. Unluckily, if there was someone who could have made Trump win, that was exactly Clinton.
With such two ugly choices available only, and moreover two very polarizing ones, it takes very little to move enough votes in one direction or the other....
If it was a movie script, with those strange, parodistic, reversed roles of 1960 candidates, it would have been a great one. Unfortunately, that was how US elected their very president....
If parties and people had selected better candidates, there would have been far less issues. Not that my country is doing better, though.... and that's becoming the bigger problem, high polarization means ugly candidates.