Despair...

The Democrats should've seen the Avenatti flameout coming a mile away.

A guy who tried to cheat his law partner, in  millions in fees, evicted from his own offices, and was willing to cast his lot with a sad cause like Stormy Daniels'.

A guy who stooped even lower to peddle Julie Swetnick's false and frankly defamatory claims against Kavanaugh.

Avenatti was an arrest waiting to happen. Last month Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley made a criminal referral to both Avenatti and Julie Swetnick for making false statements to Congress.

For months, a Clinton alum has been shuttling the lawyer Avenatti from Democratic Party event to Democratic Party event all over the country in order to familiarize with the whole process of running for the presidency.

The Democrats had high hopes for anyone who appears on CNN.  They didn't know their gamble would have taken them to the bottomless chasm of despair.