Trump's success was a backlash against change. Enough people were willing to elect a non-white twice, but to follow that up by electing a woman. That was too much. Having Trump as President for 4 years is just a blip in the pendulum of history. Sooner or later enough Americans will accept the progressive reforms like having a woman as President, medicare, globalization, pro choice, gun control etc, and get upset about other things like gene manipulation, drug abuse as an illness, colonizing Mars, etc. Change takes time and modern America seems to require more time than most other modernized people. Maybe it needs to upgrade its system of education rather the blame polls and and media for trumps success.