Sanders and Trump were the two most popular candidates in 2016. Most numbskulls, see post above, don't have enough sense to understand the country's desire for change no matter what that looks like. The result is we now have the "new face" of the young, progressive Democratic party of change in the White House. Trump lost, but there are millions of people laughing at the irony. Those same people understand that in two years there will be a Republican landslide in the statehouses to add to the huge dominance in the courts.