Nixon got sweaty and lost to Kennedy. Dukakis was short and they made fun of him for playing tank commander. Hillary/Harris were women. Howard Dean let out an enthusiastic cheer probably similar to most of us when Texas scores. Pete is a gay man whose last name phonetically begins with "booty."
The fact is that America, as a collective, decided to go with an amoral, felonious and inept conman who simulated sucking a dick, jerking off multiple dudes, and fawned over another man's cock is really quite silly. The media didn't constantly call him a felon. Didn't constantly bring up his crimes and nepotism. They gave him equal footing and were concerned about HER qualifications instead of HIS blatant failures. Most of his black-s for trumps sign holders were fucking white! Fuck, black dudes went for Trump and he basically couldn't tell one from another.
In some ways I agree. The campaign needs to attack the character and ineptitude. It needs to be mean spirited. It needs to be funny. Policy smolischy is the way forward.