The Presidential Election of 2016 was perhaps one of the most divided elections in American history. Hillary Clinton received 65,844,954 votes while Donald Trump won 62,979,879. Though Hillary won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million, President Trump achieved a competitive total of 306 electoral votes over Hillary's 232 attributing to his overall win.

It is absurd that we are still living in the era of dictating the outdated use of electoral votes. However, according to our current governmental voting regulations, President Trump won the election fair and square. Our nation remains substantially divided consisting of those both for and against the president. Over a year and a half later, it is no longer alarming to hear about protests regularly being administered in Washington D.C. Rather, these protests seem to have become expected and frequently viewed irrelevant due to their frequency.

Indeed, most would agree that the Presidential Election of 2016 was a battle between the lesser of two evils. Trump was and continues to be often referred to as a racist, bigot, and anti-feminist, for his stance on immigration, aggressive debate strategies, romantic history, and the leak of a certain conversation with Billy Bush.

On the other hand, Hillary found herself in hot water with the FBI after they discovered her use of a private email server throughout her term as Secretary of State in July, 2015. The FBI's concern was the potential breach of national security that her carelessness could have caused whether intentional or not. It was later found that Hillary had not turned over all of her work emails. Thus, once they were recovered, it was confirmed that she had sent numerous unapproved classified emails and made false claims in her own defense. Regardless of her questionable negligence, the FBI opted against prosecution in November, 2016. Although, countless voters were left at a loss as to who would make the better president out of the two candidates they were faced with having to elect.

Many voters wished for the promise of a stronger feminist society by electing the first female president, while others preferred the safety net that Trump represented—a more trustworthy candidate who was not recently taken in by the FBI for an email scandal. Regardless of the outcome of this election, there would be presumably just as much criticism to a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton as there is with our current President Trump.

Perhaps if the vote was truly the people's choice, there would not be as much political division in the U.S. If representatives were truly elected of the people, by the people, and for the people, it could reasonably be assumed that more wholesome, qualified individuals would be placed into positions of presidential candidacy rather than potential criminals.