This is interesting, so far as it goes; but something much more sinister occurred with this election, which was a triumph of propaganda over rationality, an example of mass cognitive dissonance. The propaganda part was tarring Hillary Clinton as criminal, corrupt, and a liar, a calculated and unremitting campaign of lies that managed to hold the public's attention for thirty years. It is now proved true that if you repeat a lie every day for years on end, approximately half the human population will come to believe it.

But, why spend billions of dollars (mostly your dollars!) and decades on a campaign of blatant lies? Well, those lies were intended to put a Republican, no matter who, in a better light by comparison. Cognitive function would show anyone that whereas Hillary was presented as dishonest and corrupt, Trump was undeniably corrupt, amoral, a cheat and a liar, and a person who demeans those less powerful than himself with the crudest of physical trespass, over and - cont'd