I'm increasingly furious at the complete disinterest in governing by supposed political analysts. https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1327623039996006401

Governing matters. Democrats victories in 2006 and 2008 were about the war in Iraq and financial crisis, Trump's victory had a lot more to do with NAFTA and China PNTR than anything else. https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1327624484908650501

Flip it around, Trump entirely defined the agenda in 2016, and he was the challenger. Nate's a smart guy, but he's completely lost because his polls didn't work and he doesn't realize the government exists. https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1327631329786269696

If there had been a single blue area where Democrats governed well around Covid, they might have pointed to that and said 'we'll do that nationally.' There wasn't. Voters know that Dems and Rs can't run the government, because that's what they experienced. Governing matters!

It's arrogant to imagine voters don't know what NAFTA is. Tens of millions of people remember the factory moving away and the town going to shit as Walmarts destroyed local commerce. Many of these people voted for Dems, and are now Trump voters. They know Dems look down on them.