Trump won because America isn't and never has been "America." America was built on genocide, land theft, and slavery that endured for centuries, a bloody, violent reality that remains vague or invisible to most white Americans. They believe it was ingenuity, hard work (conspiring, enslaving, killing and stealing is hard work, I have no doubt), and justice for all (white people). This is a complete fantasy. The EuroAmerican culture has always been one of a few haves brutally exploiting the masses. This has been the case since the 8th century when Charlemagne firmly and violently established Christian theocracy in Europe. The oppressed identify with their oppressors while both hating them and wanting to be them. It's visual and palpable. They see their own hardship, as well as the ungodly excess of their oppressors, and they believe that if the pie is to be shared, the first shares should go to them because it is "their country."  It's never been their country, they just don't know it.