Due to spending some of my childhood in a rural working-class area, I saw how both parties had abandoned the white working-class culturally. To the horror of my Kossack friends, in 2016 I put a James Webb sticker on my car because he could appeal to these voters.
Webb flamed out and Trump went on to harvest their votes.
In any case, we were doomed in the 2016 election. Let's suppose that the coin, when it fell on its edge, had landed the other way and Hillary were now in the White House. We would have four years of a terrible presidency followed by an overwhelming Republican sweep of both the Congress at the White House.
Why would Hillary have been a terrible president? It would be for the same reason she was a terrible candidate. She, in her own words, is politically clumsy. She has now pulled defeat from the jaws of victory three times. (remember Hillarycare? ). I do not buy the excuse she was under unrelenting attack, Obama was too and he could handle it.
In any case, let us hope -- no pray -- that 2020 is better.