In the election I think democrats were like, OK but why is she hanging around with all these rich people? And Never Trump Republicans were like, in the end maybe, sure never Trump but never never HRC.

Because she still "officially" aligned herself very much with the traditional democrat stances on all the big issues, old and new, like immigration etc. She had to right? Because she is a Democrat.

A wall street democrat maybe? But still a democrat. Maybe she was trying to appeal to Reagan Democrats... and assumed that she had the non Reagan democrats in the bag. Which she may have had because according to Naomi Klein in the book she get 2.9 million more votes than Trump in the election.