It’s the electorate. We could have run anyone and still lost.
It’s simple. A combination of the have-nots wanting the haves to support them forever. Too many people in the wagon and too few who will want to pull it in the future. That and demographics. Note that what we consider true conservatives such as Allen West lost also, so it ain’t just the moderate Romney. Even Romney wasn’t moderate enough of a conservative for today’s progressive and brainwashed masses.
We are screwed; indoctrination of our children by the liberal school systems, political correctness, and a large influx of aliens, both legal and illegal from third world countries have diluted our national unity. Four more years of Obama and our country will have twice the population of legal and illegal aliens from third world countries.
Trump is probably right that at some point another civil war will occur, although that too is doubtful because it would be one of young against old, and the older ones would lose because it’s hard to be an aged fighter. I think hibernation and (from a Steve Miller song) a “take care of me and my friends” point of view is all that is left. We have lost the patriotic American way of life. Sorry for the pessimism, but things are as they are.