And yet, Democrats still need someone exciting. Here's a few things I can assure would not have happened if the less exciting Hillary Clinton would have won: Three less conservative supreme court justices, thousands fewer dead people from COVID, no insurrection, and no gutting of federal agencies.
Maybe Trump wouldn't have as much influence. If he lost to an inferior candidate, do Republicans like Lindsey Graham turn Trump? Trump is just a carnival barker who lost to a weak candidate. Does McConnell try again to hold up a supreme court nomination? In the end, Hillary wasn't exciting.