Well stated and it seems that the Coastal Mini-Party (TM) all shares this viewpoint. We are surprised that they are surprised at how the election turned out. They had, inexplicably, manipulated their own polls ie predictions to make themselves feel better rather than to anticipate the outcome of the race and, just maybe, to do something about it! Instead, they smirked and sneered and claimed that Hillary was 10 pts ahead and cruising.
But I believe the arrogance is a front for a much darker, secretive emotion: cowardice. We joke about Title IX battleaxes and Pajama Boys but all of these lefties seem to share a primal fear of direct confrontation. They hide behind rules, review boards, group protests, media outlets, etc. When they are involved in head-to-head debates their success is on a par with the Cleveland Browns. They simply cannot state and defend a position and almost instinctively fly into an ad hominem rage.
Their obsession with Saturday Night Live sketches is another aspect. SNL is an unfunny relic of the VCR age. Political Correctness has killed comedy stone dead anyway due to all the so-called rules. Someone doing a Trump or Hillary impression for 30 seconds is amusing. Someone doing a 5 minute sketch on it is tiresome. But SNL is the collective point-and-snicker tool of the left just as it was with the Daily Show, Colbert et al.
I have long held that leftists, especially the young ones, are like the cowards on a school bus, acting as the bully's Greek chorus, laughing at his jokes and at the target of his abuse but privately scared to death that he will pick on them next.
I agree, but also think that the leftard media complex conspired to use the manipulated poll numbers to depress and demoralize our side. If they'd had a candidate who was worth a damn, it might even have worked. If we'd fielded anyone other than Trump, it definitely would have.
And it wasn't just the polling they manipulated. They threw the very last shreds of their journalistic credibility into the trash, and became the de facto communications wing of the Clinton campaign. Collectively, they created a picture of the presidential race that only existed in a parallel universe.
Fully half of the country swallowed that codswallop without even blinking. Is it any wonder they went into convulsions after she lost? Like their entire worldview, their confidence in Hillary, and her chances of winning, were based on nothing but smoke and mirrors.