Kag - I agree with your sentiment, but please don't aim that only at "liberals." Our politics has been moving - for decades - more and more toward vilifying and demonizing the opposing side. Negative campaigning is more motivating to voters, and we have, collectively, ourselves to blame for it. If the nation voted for a positive message, we'd receive a positive message. Apparently, Trump was more effective at demonizing his opponent.

Looking back at the previous four elections, only W scared me. Not because I thought he was an evil man, but because I believed him to be espouse bad policies and to be extremely incurious. We all know the condition of this country at the end of his two terms. Likewise I believed both McCain and Romney to be decent men with bad ideas.

Trump does not scare me. He petrifies me.