Just remember everyone, after this election everyone should vote for a third party candidate.  Drive out the 2 party system!  No good candidates from the major parties?  Get someone else in there!

Anyway, the whole thing about smarts is subjective to be sure.  Is Trump smart?  Of course he is, but are those smarts the kind that can be used well as the President?...well certainly quite a bit of debate there.  Hillary Clinton no doubt had a lot more experience in the political sphere but when you look at her track record and the carnage left behind in her wake...eh kinda rather have the person who at least seems sincere in his attempt to Make America Great Again.  Course that still didn't do enough to make me vote for him since I went third party.

Funny how Hillary keeps trying to stay relevant while the Democratic party keep trying to make her go away after she screwed up any chance she had to win the election with her horribly run campaign.

Part of the reason Hillary lost was identity politics coupled with the Obumber effect.  Lot of people thought Obama was a nice guy, seemed decent, was the first [i]black[/i] president, but after 8 years what was his legacy?  Obamacare, and that was pretty much the biggest thing.  A failed attempt at providing better healthcare which made everyone have to pay a lot more than before, expect for maybe some of the poorest of people.  People looked back at that, looked at Hillary who seemed to be running mostly as a [i]woman[/i], and they were like, heck NO!  We are not having another 4-8 years of this crap again and we are not going to let identity politics pull the wool over our eyes again!

And so people grew angry and annoyed at the campaign with little substance behind it expect for make a woman president for the first time.  Seeing almost nothing they wanted in the campaign, at least maybe a billionaire business man could get the economy back in shape or something...yes he is not very 'presidential' but he at least appeared to resonate a lot with the common man while Hillary was off her in own little bubble.

Oh right, and while Trump 'became' a Republican he really was more like an independent candidate overall who just had to use the Republican ticket to pave the way to the White House so there is that as well.