They realize, just as we do, that the next three SCOTUS picks, maybe even four are gonna impact the USA for a hundred years. We dodged a bullet. The got run over by the Trump train. It still hurts! Gonna hurt for a hundred years.
You're absolutely correct, and it's not just them (the Democrats), it's also those pulling strings from behind (e.g. Soros and many others who have been involved in an ongoing designed transformation of the US over decades. It was working as designed and anticipated by them, and then this election, and this outsider named Trump changed the rules of the game - and they recognize the enormous impact.
Everything they've worked to put into place - control of the media, control of academia, control of pop culture via the entertainment industry, political ‘plants’ in the Republican party to undermine the cohesion and ability of their adversaries to fight back, all of it has been circumvented, and it's like the nation has had a global hypnotic spell broken. Trump not only won this election, just as importantly he has shown how to go around or right through all of the methods of ‘control’ that the left have worked many decades to put in place.
God saved our ass again.