The best thing about that election cycle is how her camp basically treated it like a coronation. This really needs to be stressed for people who were too young then to understand what's going on. "It's her turn" and everything. I remember all news outlets and statistics places treating her winning the election as certain, up until the day before she lost. According to the polling, she had it in her pocket. I talked to an acquaintance the day before and I told him Trump will win this or it'll at least be very, very close. He believed the media and laughed at me. These people were completely incapable of reading the room and understanding just how completely and utterly unlikeable and establishment and "we are your betters" she came across. Even the most die-hard democrats had not much to say about Hillary Clinton besides "at least she is not Trump". Hillary Clinton has a hard time being in the same room as people without a multi-million stock portfolio and not being visibly uncomfortable. She is an absolute ghoul. I'm not even exaggerating, I remember quite a bit of meme material from the time where she tried to act like a normal human and failed. That's how unlikeable she is. Trump was the wildcard then. Many people did not really know him besides his TV circuit. It wasn't as much in the public eye what a fraudster he is as it is now, and all the shit he pulled around his presidency hasn't even happened then. He promised to shake things up. Sadly he was, well, Trump.