In retrospect, Hillary ran a lousy campaign and her team made a lot of errors.
But, with the “inevitable” thing, I think her support was a mile wide and an inch deep. Dems. were willing to support her and curry favor with the Clintons based on that inevitability. But the Clintons were hardly loved by many Democrats. The Clintons just didn’t get a lot of long term loyalty from Dems. The Dems. were willing to stick with her because of being inevitable not because they ever really liked her in the first place.
Once the bubble burst on inevitability, the Rats deserted Hillary like she was a sinking ship.
For all of Bill’s political skills, the Clintons just didn’t have their loyal backers/super delegates/elected officials behind them once the inevitability bubble burst.
Heck I wonder how much of Obama’s support is really for him, and how much was the ABC (Anybody But Clinton) vote.
Good question. They'll be deserting him in droves too once they see his weakness boldly defined by the election process. It'll probably bring out the snippy worse in him -- a thin shelled Marxist American hater. But if America forgives him for his ideological sins then the communist virus has sunken deep within the skin through the liberalism of the past. The 60s experiments will then have paid off.
Hopefully, it won't happen.