I understand what put him over the top--Comey re-opening the email investigation two weeks before the election only to find nothing; voter suppression by GOP state govs in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania; and the social media activities of the Russian government's Internet Research Agency. But it shouldn't have been that close in the first place--Hillary had no charisma and too much baggage, even if it was overblown.

But even without the Russia connections, I think Trump's terrible policies will catch up to him--the giveaway-to-the-rich tax bill and the Chinese trade war chief among them.

Sources:

New York Magazine - Voter Suppression May Have Won Wisconsin for Trump

Washington Post - The Dutch were a secret U.S. ally in war against Russian hackers, local media reveal

WaPo again - Timeline: How Russian trolls allegedly tried to throw the 2016 election to Trump

Trump won both states by less than 5%. Keep in mind that these states used to have Republican leads by over 15% and are now very much battleground territories. The bigger Phoenix and Atlanta grow and respectively dominate the states the more blue these states are going to become. It is just the rule of urbanity and left leaning politics. Texas is another state that gets bluer with each election and this is thanks in large part to all the transplants moving to Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. All blue cities in a red state.

Not surprised. Will be surprised if he wins 2020, that is when I will realize there is no hope for humanity.

Sure. Don't let me crush your heart 

Then the Democrats need to step up. The supposed reduction of support of the Democratic Party from millenials on the Reuters/Ipsos poll isn't encouraging.

Wrong. Very, very wrong.

Just cause you got a phony democracy don't project it to the ones that don't. Your 200 year old system is way past it's expery date. Not everyone failed to modernize.

You can't just disagree when the facts are literally out there for you to see. Don't get your panties in a wad. Anyways the opposite is true for Midwestern states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio. As more people leave the cities in these states the rural areas in them grow more of a voice. These states are getting more red at the same time that many sunbelt states are turning bluer.

Huh? The infamous american lack of geography knowledge rears it's ugly head again.

Why do people keep thinking i'm spanish lol? I'm pretty sure that's not what it says on my profile. Spain has an effin king. Yeah, it's a poor democracy.

France, Portugal, etc. have better democracies. The ones that aren't still dragging around an outdated birth chosen monarch. I will criticise them as much as i criticise the flawed democratic system the US has.

The point of democracy is that people elect their ruler. Not that they elect a group that will then elect the leader for them, especially in a country where you can change wich counties correspond to what votes. It's a cavalcade of corruption (not to mention the backdoor dealings with fund raising).

In truth i'm criticizing cause i'd like the US to be the beacon of democracy it touts itself to be, but unfortunely is not, and is likely way too corrupt now to change. 

Are they wrong though?

Just do what they do in Australia force everyone to vote lol.

Then you end up with minor governments that barely hold each other together and the opposition always reject the governments policy proposals.  Then people say these asses aren't doing shit so they vote for the other part next election and they barely win and then they get all their policies rejected.

A never ending circle of swapping and changing and not much getting done because the other party who didn't win feels they have to block almost everything.

State governments are even worst here, one will approve a 2billion budget and get contracts signed a month later the new government will cancel the project and pay out the contracts to honour them lol. And all this because 20 people complain about it lol.