No, I am not very much like PE Trump at all...Nor do I have a knee-jerk reaction to defend him as you do with Clinton.

Yes.  She won some large, urban centers.  Of course, she was losing the popular vote until the CA vote came in.  And she abandoned her base.

Voter turn out was way down in states that Clinton actually won. That's nothing for her to be proud of.  Do not try to portray Clinton as the choice of most voters - it doesn't fly when 92 million eligible voters did not vote...many of whom said they didn't like either candidate.

Which leads us to these facts.  Mr. Trump won, she didn't.  If a likable candidate went up against her, she would have lost by more electoral votes and the popular vote.  She is a polarizing figure.

It is also interesting to wonder about what would have happened if the Dems ran a likeable candidate...Not Bernie, too far left.  Perhaps someone like Biden.  Well, anyway.  You've got four years to figure it out.