Stayed up too late to watch Trumps speech. I made a bet with three of my neighbors, prior to the first GOP debate and told them that Trump would be the president. They all choose Clinton. I knew that the US was easily marketed to and that Trump is an expert marketer. I knew that after 8 years, the pendulum tends to swing in the other direction, I knew that on the right, there was a Bush and on the Left a Clinton. Nobody wanted either of those names. I knew he could say whatever he wanted and that nobody else running would or could. I knew that he knew that if he said something enough times, regardless of it's validity or lack thereof, it would become "truth" to an uneducated electorate. I knew that people wanted to believe that their way of life, their manufacturing jobs, their jobs in coal country could be preserved. I wish I had been wrong. I always knew I wasn't though. This sucks.