Hillary would have likely beaten any other of the GOP primary candidates. And modern liberalism plays on two basic instincts: envy, and the appeal of telling other people what to do.
The battle never ends.
I agree, primarily because Trump isn’t a “social conservative”; despite all of the feigned media outrage, many minorities/homosexuals/women were quite comfortable voting for Trump (or at least not voting against him).
Those forces would have been easier to align against any real conservative Republican.
For the same reason, I don’t expect to regain any ground lost in the culture wars under a Trump presidency; Trump successfully kept many of those issues off the table.