We are absolutely doomed. Goldens crossover appeal is enormous. If he’s losing, god help us
Or....it turns out that fundamentals matter and Democrats were not actually going to win a Trump+6 seat while losing several Biden+7-15 seats.
No, there's no recent precedent (if there is one at all) for the Democrats' total inability to appeal to anyone who voted for a presidential candidate of the opposing party. This is an issue of the national party's platform being completely rotten to the core in the eyes of half the country. This is the consequence of the Dems' decision to eliminate persuasion from their strategy and focus solely on turning out the people that already like them.
No, you've got the order wrong. We started doing that because voters stopped being persuadable.