Or did they? The democratic vote as a percent of the voting age population is the lowest it's been in decades. Trump even received a greater share of the minority vote than the republican candidate in 2012 did. I mean you're presumably basing your statement here on the media representation of people, but I think the election has clearly shown that media is completely full of it. Seeing them portray 'the other side' as idiots and simply accepting it is confirmation bias. People had an unprecedented disdain for Hillary. Her dangerous bigot message was quite simply a miserable failure.