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2020 s Biggest Election Losers – WSJ

If Washington has been a circus these past four years, it is in substantial part due to congressional Democrats. Americans elect lawmakers to pass budgets, confirm judges, develop considered legislation. The Pelosi-Schumer era has been day after painful day of faux scandals, gotcha hearings, breathtaking accusations, progressive-fantasy bills and promises to dismantle longstanding institutions. It s theater, not governance.

The press would normally check such behavior. Instead, Democrats and their media allies allowed their disdain for Donald Trump to lull them into believing they d benefit. The liberal FiveThirtyEight election-analysis outfit in July mused on Twitter : Could Democrats pick up 13 seats in the Senate? an estimate that now looks to be off by a mere 12. The accompanying video envisioned Democrats presiding over a filibuster-proof majority.

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