no. let's get this right.

the 2016 presidential election pit a conservative (clinton) against a nihilist (trump). and, it turns out that when you disenfranchise liberals in this way, they will not automatically choose conservatism over nihilism because they are not uniformly of the view that conservatism is preferable to nihilism.

i'm on the fence, myself.

today, we have a conservative party (the democrats) and a nihilist party (the republicans). liberals remain disenfranchised. and, they will not automatically choose the conservative party over the nihilist party in the future, either - because they may not see that as a preferable option.

it is still not clear that clinton was the lesser evil. if anything, it's less clear now than it was five months ago. even if the tpp does in the end come back and nafta ends up unscathed,  there's no way that clinton would have dropped the tpp, or even pretended to renegotiate nafta. so, that's at least something positive...

the way forwards is that liberals need to re-enfranchise themselves, not scratch their heads over why they can't build momentum around conservative policies and conservative politicians.