This outcome should be no surprise.
Despite those who wish to deny it and demonize others that have come to terms with this reality, America is and has been an empire for quite some time now. Its imperialistic foreign policy and slow, but consistent repeal of the laws and crucial rights that governed and protected the former American republic are all becoming a memory, as such American hallmarks are and will not be allowed in the empire.
Both the Democrats and Republicans have been infiltrated and are nothing but two cheeks of the same ass and are both working for the complete transformation of the US to an empire ruled by the ultrawealthy oligarchy. The only difference between them is the Democrats are tasked with placating the minorities and poor, while the Republicans placate the ever dwindling middle class with false reassurances of protecting the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
This is nothing but a sham, as evidenced how the various social justice organizations get coopted by the vast amount of money and material by the ultrawealthy, their NGOs, and social media on the Democratic side, while the same ultrawealthy spend vast sums of money on misinformation/propaganda campaigns disseminated by the many so-called conservative ideologues in books and periodicals as well as on radio, TV, and the Internet to orchestrate the hate against the Democrats and the poor and minorities they say they serve, while maintaining eye and ear blinders on the middle class to keep them in-line in order for their elected officials to support illegal wars, color revolutions, foreign coups, or turn a blind eye and do nothing to reverse the erosion of the Bill of Rights in all branches of government.
Both the Republicans and Democrats that once represented the Great American republic are not indicative of what they are today and the transformation will only get worse once Trump leaves office.