If the election is close, libs lose faith in the particular implementation of liberal democracy that's present in Amerikkka. That's where you see people asking for ranked choice voting, reform within the Democratic Party, more ballot measures, regulating super PACs, etc.

Now that the election was not even close, they don't lose faith in the implementation of liberal democracy, they lose faith in liberal democracy itself. It's a double edge sword: it pushes them into fascism, e.g. all the guys saying 'I'm a middle class white guy who voted Harris but now that Trump won and he's gonna send the minorities that didn't voot hard enough to the camps I'll just eat popcorn' or it can push them into revolutionary socialism. However, there are no nucleation points for the latter, and the left has failed to use the last 4 years to build a large net to catch everyone who's disillusioned with liberalism right now. Red Star Caucus and PSL are incredibly tiny compared to the fascists' various organizations (including the Republican Party).

We need people to understand that liberalism has failed, not just the institutions that are present in this context. The worrying thing is that the only recognizable alternative for 99% of westerners is fascism, not socialism.