[@Awson] what is reasonable to one is irrational to another. I find it to be quite hysterical to suddenly consider emigrating simply because someone was elected president, which is a common joke/serious inquiry? into emigration I've been hearing. 

I think it's more a matter of blindness than anything else. The signs have been there for a long time, before Trump even announced he was running for president. It's the old cliché of 'everyone was sheeples' but it's true. There's a lot of areas that had fallen on hard times and were susceptible to populism. Rather than help these areas, they were just more or less looked down on or ignored. The anti-Obama sentiment was already there when he was elected and was present throughout a long time of his presidency. Naturally, Trump shouted 'screw Obama' and those people would join him. Similarly, the areas that fell on hard time were largely ignored by many politicians and it was very easy to bring these people into the fold.

Trumps victory was entirely avoidable if some of these issues had been resolved, or if the context had changed. At least, I think so. We can't be sure, I think. 

Putting supporters of Trump away as racists also isn't entirely something I would consider fair, since calling someone a racist is quite a serious allegation imho. Which is more or less what has happened in this thread and in the public outcry afterwards.

I understand being upset. I don't upset being hysterical.