… A month before the 2020 election, it sure looked like Democrats were headed for a big win, with considerable talk about a blue wave. Yet perhaps after hearing all the talk of about democratic socialism, Medicare-for-all, and the Green New Deal, some reconsidered their support for Democrats for the House and Senate and changed their intentions.
In other words: These were not landslides, and this was no mandate for fundamental change. The message that voters sent was a different one than what many Democrats on Capitol Hill appear to have heard, inclined as they are to remake the U.S. economy and the social safety net via a $3.5 trillion reconciliation measure. CONTINUED
Charlie Cook