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Uproar has been unleashed upon the realisation that it was actually Hillary Clinton who won the popular vote (that is, she had more overall votes than Trump) but because of the American Electoral College system, Trump managed to win. So whilst the outcry may seem justified (surely it is undemocratic for the victor of the overall amount of votes to actually lose the election?), we must also remember that the screams of injustice render themselves fatuous when it comes to light just how closely contested the contest of the popular vote actually was. There was no huge gulf to separate them – Hillary only now leads by around a million votes, which, for a population of 318 million, isn’t much at all. With Trump being so overtly and widely detestable, the situation thus begs the question as to what was wrong with Hillary Clinton for so many people to turn against their moral conscience. Well, in the immediacy of the election results, there were a plethora of articles revolving around the idea that America is not yet at the point of electing a woman, that the population has not necessarily entrenched misogynistic views but an incapacity to elect a woman to lead their country. Whilst this may have played a contributory factor, I believe this to be merely subsidiary when looking at the election holistically. Indeed, many women actually voted for Trump effectively turning their backs on an opportunity to elect the first president of their sex. But as many polls and a video on the Guardian (‘Anywhere But Washington’) shows, many people were unmoved by this novel opportunity, frequently stating, “I’d like a female to lead this country, but I don’t want her to be the first”. So what of this distaste for Hillary Clinton? Well, as has also been stated in many articles, she typified the establishment – she has long been a member of Congress, and is married to Bill Clinton, a former president, which made her First Lady. Within this atmosphere, she would have close connections with certain groups of lobbyists and other such wealthy individuals whom, in return for money, would have exercised an amount of influence over policy. The American people were not ignorant to this behind-the-scenes style of politics, and this was exactly why Trump’s simple epithet of ‘crooked’ was so easily attached to her (though the fact that it is devoid of both alliterative and rhyming quality does say something about the American people’s willingness to lap up any old saying). This notion of her being surreptitiously conniving was only enflamed by the FBI’s investigation into her deleted emails from her own personal account. Her blatant veneer, on which dirt, rust and a shining golden tooth could be easily discerned (this whole idea is epitomised in the footage of her speaking to an all-black group of radio presenters who call her out for pandering to the black vote in response to her stating that she always carries hot sauce in her bag), too fuelled to her shadowy depiction.

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