Like I said we can play what if and talk about gerrymandering- as if dems have not done it also, impacting the results. We could also talk about what if roe was not vacated by scotus and you are probably looking at significantly more gains by pubs in the house and control of the senate. We can certainly talk about reasons, expectations, etc. However, it is not a question to whether or not what happened was a win for pubs. There is a scoreboard. Pubs are unquestionably better off than they were before the election. That is simply not debatable.
I think the wake up call, if you can even call it that, is that trump clearly dragged the party down. Not that this should be some great revelation to anyone other than trump loyalist. I think it is an indictment of trump much more than the overall party. To be fair, until he is gone he is still there and an anchor to the party, to belabor the obvious. I think he had as much(negative) impact with many of his people winning primary races (along with help in many instances from dems running/paying for ads for his candidates) in swing state races in both the senate and house as he did before the final elections took place. If we just had non trump candidates, I think we pick up 2-3 more senate seats at least, but that is more of those what ifs you were talking about and not what is.
Dems gained total control in couple of state legislature, so it will be interesting to see if your view on gerrymandering changes.
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