I feel like populist centrists and classical liberals (however defined) have a great deal look forward to, should Dems win it all. I don’t know why they can’t see it. You’ve got Manchin and Sinema in the driver’s seat, plus a thermostatic shift in public opinion against the Left.

There’ll be a huge stimulus (which centrist populists should like, right?), and some hull patching with the ACA. But how much can realistically get done before 2022? By that point, progressives will be utterly marginalized and Biden will be depleted by senate obstruction.

I don’t think I’m being pessimistic. I really do think this is how it’ll play out. Meanwhile, there’s no appetite among Dems for foreign policy adventurism, though rejoining the Paris Accords and TPP will obviously happen. Not much else abroad.

Which leaves what? An end to the CRT witch-hunt in government, plus some feel-good rhetoric about diversity and national healing. Nothing substantive, certainly. Maybe a bit of progress on criminal justice. But there are limits to what Biden will do.

Eh. I guess I just don’t get why so many if my libertarian/centrist/classical liberal friends are so despondent. They’re in a much better position to reap the benefits of a Dem sweep than the Left is. They should cheer up.