Not to mention prosecuting the former president. And for it all, Dems were accused of not having anything to run on but "Orange man bad".

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Buh- what? Will what are you talking about? Dems impeached him in term 1 and Kamala ran a whole campaign about (among other things) calling him a crook and a fascist

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There's a question of whether people were willing to hear the message sooner. First Trump term, the corruption wasn't so blatant & over the top. More importantly, diesel wasn't over $6 a gallon. That makes the audience much more receptive.

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This even goes to Dem leadership, who in theory would be great guys to trash Trump, but often realize that the key elections are Joe Blue Dog running in a Trump +16 district and that saying Trump sucks ass helps that guy less than saying "uh border security and affordability"

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The problem is always that on Congressional and Senate maps that are tilted so badly towards Republicans, the optimal strategy *in all of the individual competitive elections* is usually to run as a bipartisan problem solver even while the optimal strategy for the party as a whole is to trash Trump

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