Nancy Pelosi and a good many others placed far too much confidence in the American electorate to do the right thing.
What is the "right thing"?
How should people have voted on local officials and legislation?
The right thing would have been preventing a conman like Trump take over the entire Executive with a House and Senate of the same party ready and willing to do his bidding.
What would HILLARY CLINTON have done for Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania voters?
Why did some people vote twice for Obama, but then voted fro Trump over Hillary?
Hillary Clinton was a poor choice for the Democrat party to make but with a Republican Congress to act as a check on her, there could have been a more balanced government than Americans can now expect.
So you say, "others placed far too much confidence in the American electorate to do the right thing"...and then you admit Hillary was a shit choice and you cannot articulate what she would have done for the "BLUE WALL" states.
Maybe the electorate chooses who they want and they ignore the political trappings of the DNC and the MSM that classify anyone who disagrees with them as a RACIST, HOMOPHOBE, MISOGYNIST, XENOPHOBE.
It's tough to take the DNC and the MSM seriously when they colluded to LIE to the public so that Hillary could win.
Hillary had the MSM lying for her and she spent $1.2 billion and LOST....maybe she needed $2 billion to actually win.