“How has it come to this...”
Easy - the American Leftist electorate, in their Infinite Wisdom - elected an utterly unknown Muslim as their president, based on nothing at all but a load of glib horse manure spoken from teleprompters and the color of his skin.
And all of that a mere decade or so after 9/11.
Future hisorians will scratch their heads and speculate about mass insanity and electoral greed and corruption.
only active duty military and veterans , property owners and business owners ( job providers) should have the right to vote . We are casting our pearls to swine .
The last two elections were literally stolen by the technogeeks. Statistically impossible voter returns from specific precincts in swing states turned each swing state blue. This game will play out again and again and the GOP will tie itself in knots in order to find a pleasing candidate to the left in order to get out the vote. DUmb an DUmber.
You say “unknown” but he was very well known to anyone who bothered to look at him. He wrote (well, someone did) two books about his life (or his version of his life). He had a state senate record (thin) and his U.S. Senate record (present), his speeches, his friends, his pastor. I knew him very well and he has not surprised me at all.