I have no doubt Mrs. Clinton was inconsolable and in disbelief when she realized that her dream had collapsed.



Obama didn't exactly exude rabid enthusiasm for his one-time rival and employee. He toyed with her like a cat, possibly at the expense of his own legacy.



But this loss is on Hillary. Her deeply funded and well-oiled machine should have Zambonied Don Trump. Hubris and blindness "done her in".



The emails revealed her contempt for just about everybody and how willing she was to screw over Bernie Sanders. The pay-for-play stuff, the debate question leaks, the open borders, the comments like "put a lot of coal miners out of work", the arrogance, the projected sense of "You owe me, America", insensitive remarks about religious groups.... yadda yadda. All of it adds up and turns away more voters at every turn. For me, the "deplorables" comment was when she crossed the rubicon. Piss off half the country? She was toast. Call it 13-9.



Trump was a four-touchdown underdog going into this campaign. Far from the perfect candidate, his many flaws chronicled publicly. And like Hillary, his personal wealth metrics were far closer to Wall Street than Main Street. But Trump smartly tapped into The Rage and pinned Hillary to the Establishment Elitist wall. And enough voters realized that we weren't electing the First Saint, and that many presidents, including the Dems' beloved Bill Clinton, were not exactly Boy Scouts.



Brilliant.



History will remember Hillary as a star-crossed figure who attained unimaginable heights only to meet her own personal Waterloo.



One final thought: The first female US president will be one who comes across as Maternal, not Matriarchal. She will embrace men as well as women and promote the advancement of women's issues without fomenting a gender war. Most men love their mothers. The woman who can strike that chord AND have the brains and experience to lead will succeed. Hillary was not that woman.