I've mentioned this multiple times before, but it bares repeating:
1. Obama, like Trump, was a black swan event. The plan ALWAYS was a Clinton Restoration via Hillary.
2. Obama winning shocked everyone but Hillary and her ilk went along with it, believing Obama would crash and burn and get bounced after one term. At which point, Hillary would ride to the rescue and everything happening as planned, just a decade later.
3. But then Obama got re-elected. And got some (granted half-measured) health care reform AND had gay marriage legalized on his watch. And suddenly conventional wisdom on the left (but especially the lunatic left) went out the window.
4. 2012 also brought into existence the now discredited "Changing Demographics" meme that 2012 was the "white man's last stand" and that the GOP would have no fucking choice but go full globalist cuck and be 100% for illegals flooding the nation, minorities, trans, and feminists getting special status as "superior people" for whom normal laws and social norms don't apply and can't be punished for their shit in order to be elected.
4. Obama's re-election and said demographic shift meme caused the lunatic left to accelerate their plans for globalist flavored fascism, thinking the masses were "ready" for acceleration. Obama would get credit for a lot of stuff, but the really fascist shit would go into effect once Hillary got elected. Because A. They wanted to "protect Obama's legacy" by not having him be the one to push the button making the nation go full commie fascist and B. Hillary was a sick fuck, who had a long as fuck enemies list and contempt for humanity, that she kind of wanted to be the one to press the button turning America into a commie dictatorship, where she was Queen.
5. Gamergate then happened, which threw a wrench into the acceleration plans. The lunatic left truly thought that the masses who would oppose them, would be oblivous until it was too late to stop them. But Gamergate woke everyone up just in time, leading to a mass red pilling and fracturing of the left and the lunatic left showing their true evil face.
6. By this point, the lunatic left was all in and couldn't do a tactical retreat because too much ground (IE trans right, black supremacy, legalized misandry directed at men by feminazis) would have to be lost to save their hides and gains (gay marriage, Obamacare, etc.
7. Trump came along. Another black swan and one that was an existential crisis for the lunatic left BECAUSE he was the embodiment of the masses rejecting the lunatic left (and the DNC, Obama, the Clintons) bullshit. This plus 5-6, created a situation where the lunatic left full tilt went insane because they couldn't concede and just kept doubling, tripling, quadrupling, down on their bullshit because they couldn't fucking own up to the nightmare they created.