This isn’t about intuitive feelings, it is about why people voted the way they did and where the support came from for the candidates. I dreaded a hillary victory, and on that Tuesday in November I was confident that Trump would carry Texas easily I did not have that same confidence for the rest of the country. When early returns that evening showed Trump performing well in some of the northeastern states that trend democrat I began to have some hope that he could pull off the upset. For the record, I voted for Trump because I had at least a semblance of a hope that his judicial appointees would be better than hillary’s would be — and an absolute confidence that they couldn’t be any worse.
If you cant see that Trump was leading a huge seismic shift in politics then you are not politically astute at all.