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By all accounts, the Democratic Party did much better than expected in the most recent election cycle, which was just a few months ago.
Democrats picked up a seat in the Senate, while only losing 9 seats in the House. Every projection had Republicans picking up at least 12 seats in the House. The toss up elections in the House, went in the Democrats favor by a 2 to 1 margin.
Democrats also won elections for Governor in battleground states such as Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
There wasn't anything close to a "red wave." That sure doesn't sound like failing to me.
I agree democrats did better than expected. I believe we are now seeing the powerful impact of ballot harvesting and 3 month long voting cycles, potentially along with other nefarious activities like what happened in Arizona with machine failure and Katie Hobbs running the election.
There is personal winning and then there is holistic winning. There is such a thing as failing up. When you do nothing good, are unproven, or just flat out incompetent but you are rewarded. There are example after example.
One could say Pruitt was winning when he was hired as head coach but it was disastrous for the UT football program and athletic department. Personally he won. Holistically for the organization and school it lost because it was a very bad decision.
If you are married and one person goes rouge and goes on a spending spree, has a new sports car that is the envy of neighbors, goes on lavish vacations, frequents the finest restaurants, wears expensive jewelry and live in a house you can't afford then you can claim your winning. In reality, you're broke, live off credit cards, about to go bankrupt, hate each other and the marriage is failing but the kids don't know. Personally they look like they're winning. Realistically everyone is losing.
Deceiving people on a house of cards ain't really winning.