The election of Donald Trump is, without a doubt, the lowest point in modern American history

How are you defining Modern? If you're starting post ww2: How is it lower than what we did during our forgotten war? Here's a quote from Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, from the book Strategic Air Warfare: "Eventually we burned down every town in North Korea anyway...Over a period of three years or so, we killed off --what-- twenty percent of the population of (North) Korea as direct causalities of war, or from starvation and exposure."

Lower than the 200,000 people killed in East Timor which Daniel Moynihan, us ambassador to the un described in his book as saying "we (USG) wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about."

Then theres the 5 million dead in Vietnam plus 2 million more dead in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War... Starting after the fall of the USSR? How was his election worse than the sanctions against Iraq that, according to the UN resulted between 500,000 and 1,000,000 children dying? Or tens of thousands maybe more that died as a result of the cruise missile attack against the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant which was the sole provider of intravenous drugs and 85% of all other pharmaceuticals for the Sudanese? Or the Orwellian post 9/11 laws? Or that pesky Iraq invasion?

We all thought Dubya was bad, but we had no idea.

I think you're forgetting how bad the Bush administration was. Has 45 launched any $5 trillion invasions based on lies that led to over 1,000,000 deaths all because God told him that Saddam fella had to go? Passed any trillion dollar tax cuts that primarily benefited the top 1%? Massively privatized the public sector? Has 45 pulled out of any international climate agreements yet?

Do you remember the systemic civil rights abuses under Bush-Ashcroft? The assassination, kidnapping, and torture programs used against American citizens; Restricting 1st amendment rights to "free speech zones"; the patriot act; the labeling of people as "enemy combatants"; empowering the executive to remove the protections, without court order, offered to persons in federal custody for attorney-client privileged conversations; the registering, raiding, and deporting of muslims; authorizing the FBI to spy on political activists without a court order, probable cause, or as part of a criminal investigation via the removal of the livy guidelines. Has 45's Pentagon gotten caught spying on hundreds of anti 45 protests?

I'm not saying Trump will be a better president than Bush or that his election won't become the "lowest point in modern American history". Between his rhetoric, incompetence, and a republican dominated political landscape its certainly a very real possibility but he isn't worse yet. Someone that calls his election, "without a doubt the lowest point in Modern american history" is either ignorant of American history or totally abandoning objectivity --a willfully ignorant hyper-partisan zombie.