I can’t imagine them picking Trump over anyone, if that’s what you’re saying—even if they bought into their own bullshit about him being incompetent, that would still be an openly hostile person in the highest office, with a big movement behind him.

I’m sure some of them saw Hillary as too openly arrogant/unlikeable/sociopathic to be a near-perfect shill the way Obama was, but I seriously doubt any of them preferred Trump to her.