Trump is perfect candidate to make Hillary somewhat electable
No viable Democratic candidate with national presence ran against her in the primary, except Bernie. In the beginning the media painted the race as inevitably Clinton vs Bush, and either way, the economic and political status quo for the elites would have been preserved. No big changes proposed for Wall Street or to the tax structure, popular democracy kept under wraps.
But Trump is custom designed to suck up media time, appear (and be) scary enough to make sane people look for something familiar to cling to, more than racist enough to get the troglodytes to vote for him. Get the race down to two people, Trump vs Clinton, and even though there are trust issues and a desire for real change and this broiling populist anger at the economic status quo, the energy can be channeled neatly into a two-channel choice, where Hillary by contrast looks dramatically better.
On "social issues", we on the left get what we want. Non racist moderate republican women may even vote for her too. Republican votes will be suppressed by Trump's most egregious qualities. We all get what we don't want: perpetual war and continued corporate control over *their* government.
If you want a sailboat to sail up wind, you just have to use the wind to tack left, tack right, tack left, tack right. Trying to keep "the mighty ship of state" on its course toward continuous empire and a plutocracy is like sailing upwind. Social issues seem like progress to us as long as we head left, and seem like progress to the right wing as long as we head right. In this case we are supposed to feel good when we finally elect The First Woman President, which will be heralded as a Momentous Sign of Great Progress. But meanwhile, we spend over 50% of our discretionary budget on military expenditures and our middle class has been sucked almost lifeless and infrastructure is crumbling and corporations write our laws. And our children go into debt to the banks, to earn the diplomas that let them fight for a dwindling supply of "middle class" jobs.
Bernie's message was full sail downwind, in a direction opposite what the Money Party wants, threatening the underpinnings of an elite power structure that keeps our democracy in chains.
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that always was the plan.
Sadly, for the plan, and for us, something I hear from the younger voters is "at least Trump will be CHANGE". No use condescendingly lecturing them or scornfully scolding them, they are the ones who are most affected by war and college costs and interest fees and the TPP, and it is them who will inherit an earth raddled from fracking. The people running this show just collect the profits and always pass GO, and never go to jail. It has been noticed, now. 
