A good and decent local politician friend of mine, truly committed to people power and democracy murmured to me once after his party had lost a multitude of seats "The people have spoken. F*ck 'em!" It was sadness and disappointment but not an attack on his ideals. Something he'd only have said to a close friend. The vote against his party's ideas made him shift his position, rethink and abandon what people had voted against in his policies. Can you imagine today's Democratic party leaders doing this? No. They are laying all the blame on Biden.