Flashback, 2008:  A republican president drives the country into a ditch, and in the midst of the "War on Terror" a black man named Barack Hussein Obama is elected POTUS by wide margins.

In response, the republican party opens the flap on the Big Tent to the seedy underbelly of American politics, the racist far right, fueling a cultural backlash that gives them both houses of congress. 

2016:  A lame and entitled democrat tries to carry the banner for women into the oval office and fails.  Her opponent slides to victory in the EC espousing ideals popular with the racist right:  A border wall and a muslim registry, both of which are hooey...

You have to dance with them that brung ya---Trump has given new legitimacy to the Alt Right, and they're here to stay, courtesy of the Republican Party.  

But the Democrats had it coming...