Lots of people seem to be bemoaning 2016 as The Worst Year Evarrr or something.

I am not in that camp and I have my objections to it. But, in this case, I think the sentiment is reasonable wrt the topic at hand, basically.

Yes, an incompetent autoocrat got elected to the highest government office of the most powerful nation on earth. You almost certainly already knew this.

Prince died.

Read this as "even if <your favorite political candidate> had won the US election"