It used to be that failed presidential candidates would shuffle off the national stage after their ignominious defeat and go lick their wounds in private. Eventually they would re-emerge again in some other public service position, trading on the street cred gained by having been this close to being able to nuke another country into a Walmart parking lot because Bunheads got cancelled … or even something trivial Those were the days. The past two presidential cycles have seen a change in 1st runner-up temperament; possibly because both of the rich white guys who lost, lost to a black dude.