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I don't that would have been the case if the GOP had nominated somebody other than Trump. DonDon has brought out the worst of everybody for better or worse.
Perhaps not. But DonDon as you put it could have been easily avoided if the Democrats had nominated a decent candidate. Hillary was the only Democrat, probably alive or dead that could have possibly lost to Trump. It's not like the Democrats didn't have advance warning about Hillary, in February of 2016 a poll showed 56% of all Americans wanted the Democrats to nominate someone other than Hillary. The Democrats ignored America as a whole which was their right as America as a whole doesn't have a say on whom the democrats nominate. But America as a whole decides who wins the election.
2016 was an election in which the two least wanted candidates, the two most disliked candidates went against each other. Only three major party candidates in our history has had a favorable rating of less than 50%. Barry Goldwater at 43% in 1968 and the bottom two, the record holders for the lowest favorable rating ever, Hillary Clinton at 38% and Trump at 36% in 2016. Those same three are also the only three major party candidates having an unfavorable rating higher than their favorable rating. Even Goldwater would have trounced either one.
Highest to lowest favorable/unfavorable ratings of each major party presidential candidate.
Favorable/unfavorable
1956 Eisenhower 84/12%
1964 LBJ 81/13%
1976 Carter 81/16%
1960 JFK 80/14%
1960 Nixon 79/16%
1968 Nixon 79/22%
1976 Ford 79/20%
1972 Nixon 76/21%
1968 Humphrey 72/28%
1984 Reagan 71/30%
1980 Carter 68/32%
1984 Mondale 66/34%
1980 Reagan 64/31%
1992 Bill Clinton 64/33%
2008 Obama 62/35%
2012 Obama 62/37%
1956 Stevenson 61/31%
2004 G.W. Bush 61/39%
2008 McCain 60/35%
1992 G.H.W. Bush 59/40%
2000 G.W. Bush 58/38%
2004 Kerry 57/40%
1996 Bill Clinton 56/42%
1988 G.H.W. Bush 56/39%
2000 Gore 55/45%
2012 Romney 55/43%
1972 McGovern 55/41%
1996 Dole 54/45%
1988 Dukakis 50/45%
1964 Goldwater 43/47%
2016 Hillary Clinton 38/58%
2016 Donald Trump 36/60%
America as a whole didn't want either major party candidate. So they went with the candidate they least wanted to lose, not the one they wanted to win. They didn't want either on to win. But the one they least wanted to lose.