Of all the liberal reactions to the 2016 election result, that of the New York Times’ Frank Bruni was the most brutally honest. Within it, he pointed to a major quandary Democrats face.

“After Election Day, one Clinton-weary Democratic insider told me: ‘I’m obviously not happy and I hate to admit this, but a part of me feels liberated. If she’d won, we’d already be talking about Chelsea’s first campaign. Now we can do what we really need to and start over.'”