“Ordinarily, it’s not possible for a party to win the presidency and have a bad election night, but the Democrats managed it. Biden isn’t riding into the White House on the strength of a Blue Wave, but a Blue Trickle that saw Democrats fail to win control of the Senate, suffer shocking setbacks in the House, and lose ground in state legislative races after investing heavily in them.
Democrats thought they were marching from strength to strength, when they were really on thin ice with an electorate that was prepared to reject Trump, but not to empower a party that has elevated socialists and outlandish ideas from defunding the police to the Green New Deal. Democrats were so certain they were riding the tide of history in this election that they didn’t pause to take note of their agenda’s unpopularity”. (National Review. Read more here.)