People say this. But in this election, voters had lived under both administrations. It wasn’t like a final exam they needed to spend weeks prepping for. They lived it for four years, with both. That is imo a perfectly rational way to vote, based on direct lived experience and we should be able to deliver observable value based on that alone.

So then the question becomes, where did we (democratic leaders really) go wrong? Not, why didn’t the public respond the way we expected.