What are Tennessee Democrats' path forward?

[Roll Roons]

They lost winnable seats in the U.S. Senate and governorship in 2018.

Lol no. Those seats were absolutely not winnable for Democrats. Maybe (and that's only a maybe) if Bredesen was the sitting governor, a la Scott or Hassan. Aside from that, he was running in a favorable year for an open seat against a crazy partisan hack and didn't have residency/lobbying issues like Bayh. If BREDESEN couldn't win or even keep it fairly close under those circumstances, it's hard to see any Democrat having a path to victory. It's a shame, because it's good for states to have healthy competition.

As for the governor's race, Haslam was popular, and Tennessee voters probably figured Bill Lee would pretty much continue the path set by him. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

[Roll Roons]

Meh, Diane Black would have probably done worse than Blackburn in a gubernatorial race against Dean. It’s not impossible for them to win statewide, but it’s arguably the hardest state for a Democrat to win nowadays.

The irredeemable pit known as Arkansas says hello.

I'd say it's Idaho. A Democrat hasn't won a Senate election there since the 1974, or a gubernatorial election since 1990, and it hasn't shown any signs of trending left.

[Roll Roons]

Import Californians or wait for a Republican governor to screw up the state so badly that they can come back a la Laura Kelly and KS Dems.

KS going D also took a very polarizing and controversial GOP nominee.