If you add up all the votes for president in the 2016 election, including votes for third-party presidential candidates, the center-right won the popular vote, and won it rather handily, not the left:
Trump -- 62,983,000
Johnson -- 4,500,000
McMullin -- 700,000
Castle -- 172,000
TOTAL -- 68,355,000
Clinton -- 65,853,000
Stein -- 469,000
TOTAL -- 66,322,000
This means that the center-right vote topped the center-left vote by more than 2 million votes: 68,355,000 to 66,322,000. That is encouraging.
A few liberals have made the laughable claim that Johnson was closer to Hillary than Trump. Johnson supported defunding Planned Parenthood, supported abolishing the Department of Education, supported tax cuts, supported the XL Keystone pipeline, opposed Obamacare, opposed Dodd-Frank, opposed Sarbanes-Oxley, opposed Net Neutrality, supported cutting the corporate income tax to zero, supported school choice, opposed cap and trade, supported the Citizens United decision, etc., etc. He was far closer to Trump than he was to Hillary.
One reason that Hillary lost in 2016 is that she got slightly fewer votes than Obama got in 2012: she received 65,853,000 vs. 65,915,000 for Obama. Trump, on the other hand, got over 2 million more votes than Romney got in 2012: he received 62,984,000 vs. 60,933,000 for Romney.
Moreover, not only did Trump beat Hillary in states won 30-20, but Trump buried Hillary in counties won: He won over 3,000 counties, while she won fewer than 200. Think about that: the county is the most basic political unit. Yet, Hillary won a majority of the votes in fewer than 200 counties out of over 3,200 counties.
I might add that Republicans control 33 governorships. You can't gerrymander governors' races; they are based solely on the popular vote in the state. So a majority of the citizens in 33 states have elected a Republican as their governor.