This is why the Democrats, liberals, and primitives have lost so much, and so consistently.
They look at a situation as they wish to see it, rather than how it really is.
If they'd been more aware of the unpopularity, for example, of the newly-former president, or of the recent Democrat candidate for president, and figured out why the individual was unpopular, they probably would've gone some other way, with better results.
But no; they looked at hopes as reality, rather than reality is reality.
And people who think, and see things, that way, deserve to lose.