Addendum to My Last Post

As a follow-up to my last post, here is another good piece by Jeet Heer in The Nation making the case that Biden's very successful presidential campaign may have hurt Congressional candidates. By overemphasizing Republicans like Kasich, The Lincoln Project, etc., at the Convention and during the campaign at the expense of actual Democrats:

"In using Republicans to delegitimize Trump, Biden was also in effect legitimizing the Republican Party. His implicit argument was that the only real problem was Trump and that once Trump was out of the way, the two parties could go back to normal cooperation. Biden completely ignored the extent to which the GOP had become Trumpized and major Republicans like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell had been deeply complicit in Trump’s corruption.

Biden gave voters who leaned Republicans a plausible argument to vote for him. But he also gave those voters, and also many centrists, permission to split the ticket. After all, if the only problem is Trump, why punish the GOP? If Biden knows how to work with Republicans, why not have a divided government?

The real lesson of the election is that if you run a Republican campaign, you will get Republican results."

I think this is a legitimate take, and one you're not likely to hear on any national news outlet, especially television.