To answer my question, let me suggest the following five 'things', at least for starters: #1: modern-day Western media's undue and excessive, ongoing, seemingly never-ending exaltation of celebrity/entertainment culture to the rafters; #2: the selfsame's sidelining, marginalizing, ridiculing, pigeonholing and otherwise delegitimizing of various un-trendy and out-of-popular-favour population groups - whether of minority or majority membership/s - throughout the United States of America (in particular); #3: the inherent laziness of the Clinton machine to make a serious effort in, let alone engage in meaningful campaigning in several highly at-risk (and, as it of course ultimately transpired, pivotal and decisive) midwestern industrial ('rust belt') states, due to their denial (syndrome) of anything politically significant possibly happening there; #4: apparently somewhat inaccurate (though not extremely so, despite popular understanding to the contrary) opinion polling generally, and especially in these aforementioned states, in the run-up to the American presidential election; and #5: the mainstream media's highly partisan, extremely pro-Clinton - or, more correctly, highly anti-Trump bias - from the very get-go of the campaign.
Numbers 2 & 5 helped to galvanize the denizens of disgruntled ((President) FDR's? "huddled masses") behind President Trump - the same sort of people who early on got in behind King-in-waiting David of ancient Israel...as Holy Writ describes them, "everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented[margin:'bitter of soul']". (Without such an observation in any way even remotely constituting any sense of equivalence between (King) David and U.S. President Donald J Trump!)
Numbers 3 & 4 served as an effective smokescreen, an - wholly unintended, arguably even providential - diversion(ary tactic) ultimately allowing Mr Trump to sneak through and win by the proverbial whisker.
And number 1 saw an otherwise utterly inexplicable media infatuation with Donald J Trump as a media phenomenon and even the Clinton camp's own obsequious deferring to such and its every ebb and flow, its every nook and cranny, and thus ultimately served to make otherwise arguably reasonable-minded folk political grist/fodder for the Trump mill.
And all the rest - as we all now well know - is history.
P.S. I do realize that each of these deserves more in-depth elaboration, exploration and examination, but to avoid - for the moment - that old bugbear/bane, 'paralysis by analysis', I'll leave these with my readership, to chew over, ponder and reflect upon at their own leisure... .
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