Well, Trump is generally unliked. Though most people viewed him as funny, not a thread. Him winning was something that surprised the majority here, no matter who they supported. It looked especially bad for him in the last weeks.
Now, Hillary is another topic. The majority here without a doubt put Hillary above Trump. However, quite a lot didn't like Hillary Clinton at all for various reasons. Some didn't vote, some voted as depressed voters as Moore called them. There are a lot of issues with Hillary, such as her looking disingenuous (heavy and awfully transparent pandering, talking about taking the high road, but kicking low several times), focused on herself ("I'm with Her",, "her turn"), being pure establishment (corporate backed, DNC pushing way too hard for her against Bernie, Debbie Wasserman Schulz) and unreliable (history flip flopping issues and apologizing for being on the wrong side).
A part of this was the behaviour of the supporters. Now, you shouldn't judge a candidate just on their supporters. Trump isn't a bad pick because his supporters are assholes, it's because he is insane and endanger us all when he got power. Same with everyone. But there was a systematic problem with Hillary supporters here on GAF and in other places, where they tried to force party unity and did so by shutting down criticism of her. As people here state, people who didn't openly and loudly stood for Hillary were dogpilled by PoliGAF and pressured and shamed into voting for her. Bernie supporters was told that they
weren't needed. It was messy.
