Over the last year, I've frequently argued that "it isn't just Trump." My point has been that Progressives would have directed the same level of vitriol, hatred, and outrage at any Republican who had managed to halt the ascension of the left's queen. Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, whoever - it simply wouldn't have mattered. You would have seen exactly the same effort to destroy that person.
There are two reasons for that. The first is that Hillary was supposed to be the final nail in the concept of the United States as a constitutionally-limited republic. She would have finished Obama's work, irreparably altered the courts, and locked in our European-socialist future. They were so close they could taste it, and the stupid voters derailed their plan. Whoever they elected would have been hated with every fiber of the left's collective being.