they are, apparently, incapable of accepting even the slightest bit of blame for their losses over the past 8 years which doesn’t bode well for their future endeavors IMO. Their general game plan seems to be to stick with the “Putin did it” lie (while ignoring the 2010 and 2014 elections) and undermining the Trump presidency as much as possible in hopes of exploiting the inherent lability of our two party system in 2018 and 2020. I think we can easily counter that plan.
I hope we can; I think racial/gender identity politics played a role in her loss as well (where people enamored with what they believed Obama stood for simply didn’t see it in her, so without a person “of color” on the ticket they wouldn’t support it). Also, the Hispanics to whom Democrats have pandered often have a macho culture where few men would vote for a woman; no surprise Trump got about 30% of them...
They will work 24/7 to undermine Trump (and more importantly, what his hard-working, tax-paying base represents), but they’re going to have a hard time if people can see visible improvement. The 2016 race was as much a reflection of Obama as Hillary because for 8 years people saw no visible indication of economic improvement.