I have never agreed 100% with any politician I have ever voted for, and I doubt you have either. It's a pretty simple formula, which candidate most closely aligns to what I believe is the correct course of action on issues that are most important to me. I have never voted on social issues. I always look at things like economy, jobs, taxes, regulation, deficit, security, etc. as the most pressing issues facing this country in a presidential election. If the two candidates where the same on these issues, which they never are, then I'd start looking at a candidate's position on secondary issues like abortion, gay marriage, etc.
A candidate's character is also a factor, but in this case I thought they were both pretty much slim. It was the worst choice of candidates I've ever seen in my lifetime. I couldn't stand either one, so that pretty much canceled out and I was left again to make a choice based simply on the issues. On the economic issues and so on that I believe are most important, I was clearly more closely aligned with Donald Trump. There was no way I could bring myself to vote for a candidate (Hillary Clinton) with which I disagreed on almost every issue that I found most important for the future success are prosperity of the American people.
As far as the other stuff goes, I put my faith in the American system of government. Don Trump is a president (or will be), not a dictator. We have coequal branches of government and it is Congress that passes laws. The president can't act unilaterally (though Obama certainly did everything he could to bypass congress with executive action). That is why I think all this sky is falling rhetoric from the left is nothing but overblown hysteria. Don't forget also that Trump has received much resistance from within his own party, which makes the likelihood of anything damaging of controversial getting through Congress even more remote. Our government was founded to provide checks and balances for good reason.
I also believe that, when all is said and down, Trump's pro-growth agenda will do more for minorities then the polices of Hillary Clinton. What minorities and the middle class needs more of than anything else is good paying jobs. I don't see that happening under the policies of a Clinton presidency.
Let's say that Hillary Clinton had won the presidency and she continue the same punishing economic policies of Presidency Obama (I actually think she proposed to make them worse with higher taxes). We'll never know for sure, but my belief is that we would have continued with four more years of stagnant economic growth, an underemployed populace, low labor participation, exploding health care costs that are killing small business and the middle class, continued government dependency for the lower class, unbridled government spending, rising debt, and probably a bunch of other bad stuff I can't think of right now.
If that is the America that you voted for, then that makes you part of the problem. Certainly something that deserves to be criticized.
