When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the "right thing" of electing the Democratic candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton.What followed were eight long years of extralegal efforts to neuter candidate, then President, then ex-President, and then candidate again, Donald Trump.The nonstop efforts were all justified as "saving democracy" — albeit by nearly destroying it.In 2015-2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign fueled the lie that discredited ex-British spy Christopher Steele had…