“The obsessive hatred of Trump helped get him elected.”
The left knew their coordinated attacks on candidate Trump would cause his supporters and sympathizers to rally to Trump and suck all the oxygen away from primary opponents.
The left wanted to run against Trump in the general election because they thought the words felon, Nazi, and impeached would ensure their victory.
They did not consider - apparently - that they were fueling an unstoppable movement.
Now they know.
They turned a billionaire New Yorker into an everyman. A sympathetic cult hero like a 1920’s gangster. A guy beat down by the Man just trying to get over.
“The left wanted to run against Trump in the general election”
they desperately wanted Trump to run in 2016 as well so they could attack him 24x7 ... so they didn’t learn a damn thing ...