Not to try to find a way to work with him, and perhaps make the country not just better in the process, but more civil. No. They just wanted to right the wrong they felt enough voters had committed by electing Obama in the first place. They failed, the way they have failed at so much else during both of Obama's terms. They couldn't stop him from being reelected the way the bullhorn media, always drunk and stupid with imagined power, couldn't stop him from being reelected. But they all still refuse to change their game, even as they watch their party go up in smoke.