Soul-less minions are a dime a dozen; Obama had no special magic that lifted him past McCain & Romney - just a mass media push.
But working for an obviously subversive, racist, anti-America 0bama (whose "credentials" were still never divulged) were the world's greatest propaganda organ in the history of mankind, the MSM; But then add on the weight of the world's globalist billionaire elites; layer in the Academe; The vast machination of the Pop Culture; major industrial and corporate interests; the Democrat Part and HALF the GOP; The legal tentacles of the SJW's machination like the ACLU and SPLC; and importantly, all governmental alphabet intel agencies, covert and overt.
It's a miracle American held together under that kind of dominance of the PTB...Even MORE miraculous was that Donald Trump overcame those forces and beat Hitlery!