Snark!
You're certainly free to view Trump as the antidote to progressivism, but the energy invested into the ignorance required could be put to better use.

The disease is neo-liberalism.  This fusion of corporate control of the UNITED STATES  government, and the policies that keeps power firmly in their grasp and the wealth concentrated on fewer and fewer people certainty is the disease. 

Hillary failed because she was blatant about her loyalty to these oligarchs and campaigned on not being Trump. This is a loser of a plan, and democratic leadership remains committed to this stinking corpse of policy. 

Trump sees himself as the great white hope, and all he is capable of is putting his foot in his over privileged mouth.

Meanwhile good people are deluded and indoctrinated into despising fellow Americans because they're left extremist or right wingnuts.  Following this mode of distraction helps the disease.