Re: Not much sympathy
America is home to millions and millions of people. Of these teeming multitudes, a tiny minority want to be politicians and of these fewer yet actually have the aptitude and skills to do a decent job. Such are the initial numbers though that even when you filter by party allegiance, skill, intelligence, not being ugly as a warthog and all the other American political things, you're still left with thousands of people to choose from as presidential candidates.
And yet, out of these thousands it got winnowed down to Clinton and Trump.
Something is clearly very wrong with the political selection process if the epitome of presidential material in all of the USA is these two.