© White House photoThe Denier in Chief
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan," said John F. Kennedy. The self-serving behavior of Democratic pols since Hillary's loss adds credence to that observation. Look at how they eagerly explain the defeat away as a failure peculiar to Hillary. She "didn't know why" she was running, says Joe Biden. They console themselves with the spin that defects in Hillary's personality, not in their policies, account for the loss.
Still wrapped up in his self-image of wonderfulness, Obama says that he would have won the election. Even though he had campaigned for Hillary on the pitch that she would continue his glorious policies, he refuses to see her defeat as a repudiation of his "vision" and remains "confident that, if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it."
Never mind that his coattails disintegrated whenever Democrats grabbed at them. They have suffered sweeping defeats at every level of government during his presidency.
Obama was useless to Hillary in any of the states that she needed to win. If anything, Hillary's defeat makes Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 look almost like flukes — a function not of the strength of his "vision" but of the weakness of his Republican opponents.
Comment: The people rejected more that just Obama's legacy. They rejected Killary's vision of endless war and a nuclear confrontation with Russia.