Well, duh... It would be a cakewalk for Dems, if they willing to embrace policies that are proven winners by polling, like lowering health care costs, providing M4All, etc. and other lefty populist policies, but they never will, at least not sincerely, because it would anger their corporate donors. So they go on, election after election, trying to squeeze out, or not, a tiny marginal victory by basically saying, " We're not them!", and playing entirely to political theater, ID politics, and culture war issues. By now most Americans have seen this game long enough and either don't buy it or just give up on voting... Leaving all the populist positions to the Repubs, is not a winning strategy, but winning fed elections has not been a Dem priority ever since Clinton won in 1992.

Democrats seem to be experts at seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.

@snytiger6 This has long been noted but always a heartbreak. This time it spells death for democracy but, if that's what voters want (and it seems to be) then that's what they'll get. I think CWII has already begun so it will be getting more pronounced when libs are routinely attacked and begin to fight back.