Pride goes before a fall, and the Democrats were only doing what is characteristic of them now by putting up Hillary.
What was the origin of the term “Yellow Dog Democrat”? Wasn’t it Democrats who were so lockstep with the party for party’s sake, that they would vote for a yellow dog if it were on the ballot with a (D)?
Hillary was that yellow dog. I could expand on metaphorical implications, but won’t, because my point isn’t to hammer on Hillary for how bad she was. It’s to point out what fools the Democrats were for picking her, and it was out of their own pride.
Maybe after quite a long time, when they are humbled enough, they may come back to be an effective political force; but they will have to put out an objectively better showing than Donald Trump. That is going to be a high, high hurdle. Libertarians might come back first and beat the Democrats. Notice that it is the Greens not the Libertarians who are playing the frenemy game with the Democrats.
We should be focused on destroying the rat party and replacing them with the libertarians. At least they’re a tolerable opposition party.