When the campaigning for the 2016 presidential election began, more than 500 days ago, there were three main candidates that everybody was paying attention to; Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders.

It seemed almost immediately that everybody I knew, and even those I didn't know, on social media, in conversations at school, words I heard walking by strangers on the sidewalk, was against the idea of Donald Trump as president. Him running as president seemed to be a joke at first. People were talking about it like the popular hashtag that circulated, #Kanye2016 -- as if no way would Donald Trump become our next president.

This election, as you may have heard and have now experienced, was completely unprecedented. For us millennials, it is, next to the election of the first African-American president, Barack Obama, the most historic election we have witnessed. This is not only because a woman was finally in the race, but, a woman with so much drama behind her name, a woman who has been the First Lady when President Bill Clinton was in office.

At the beginning of the campaign, prior to the primaries, I noticed that if a millennial was leaning towards the democratic party, they were rooting for Bernie. Bernie was the candidate who cared about the people our age. He spent so much of his time speaking at colleges, including Indiana University, which was an amazing experience. He attempted to show us all that he was in our corner. Not just us college kids, but everybody's. I still see Bernie signs around town, regardless of the outcome of the primary, and now more recently, the election.

Fast forward past the primaries, where Hillary Clinton was chosen as the democratic candidate and Donald Trump as the republican candidate. I think even at that point, most of America had doubts that Donald Trump had a chance at becoming president-elect. I mean, this is the man that fires people on television. This is the man that has hotels in various cities that are known to cost an entire salary a night to stay in, a man with a head of hair worth noting (not in a good way), and a voice that we all aim to do the perfect impression of.

So, on November 8, 2016, when I stayed up until 2:30 AM that Wednesday morning after Election Day, I couldn't believe it as I watched the electoral vote count go up and up in Trump's favor. Clinton wasn't far behind but behind enough, to where you knew no matter how many states flipped in her favor, there was a large chance of Trump becoming the 45th president of the United States.

And then he did. For the duration of the last few weeks of their campaigning, I started rooting for Clinton more, because the things Trump were saying didn't sound like the things our president should be saying. I never heard Obama speak negatively about another race, or about forcing people to leave our country. This was absolutely unprecedented, as they have been saying. Once he actually became the president-elect, I realized I needed to accept the fact.

I wasn't going to attend any of the anti-Trump rallies I was invited to on Facebook, I wasn't going to attend any protests that were being held downtown against him. Because, although I knew, and still know, that the things he says, and the things he may believe, are wrong, and maybe dangerous, we must accept the outcome. When I say accept, I don't mean think it is okay to discriminate publicly against gay, female, Mexican, Muslim, or black individuals -- I mean accept his win, and root for him to be a different president than he was candidate.

We can't root for him to fail. That's like hoping the pilot of your airplane falls asleep. Since November 8, we have learned that Trump isn't actually planning to do every thing he said in his campaign. His 100 Day Plan includes a wall, but it's rather unlikely that Mexico will actually pay for it, as he wishes them to. He has changed his plans to completely repeal Obamacare, which would leave over 20 million people without health insurance. He recently said on 60 Minutes that it wasn't his intention for everybody to spew this hate. He looked right at the cameras and said, "Stop it."

No, none of this makes up for the things he has said and the things he has planned on doing, but we also have to realize that presidential power isn't as large as we think it is. This election has been so strongly media-oriented, that we forget the other positions that are in his way. Yes, there is now a republican house and senate, but a lot of his policies have gotten criticism from the majority, and he has to win everybody over on his plans for the first 100 days, or else nothing will go the way he plans.

This week we saw his appointment of two of his White House staff members, his chief-of-staff and chief strategist. His chief-of-staff has a long history with the government, and he can help guide Trump, teaching him the ins-and-outs of his position. He needs staff that will make the transition from Obama to himself peaceful.

I am by no means a fan of Trump, nor was I necessarily a fan of Hillary after everything she has done in the past, but I do believe Trump understands that it is not in his best interest to destroy our country.

So let's hope to God that he does make America great again. Stay tuned.