This is a great summary. You're absolutely right, these progs have pissed off "just about everyone".Very good thread! Why are they going to get smoked? As you pointed out, timing.
A few things will drive this election as far as turnout----->
1. They have really pi**ed parents off. Even moderate Democrats are asking themselves, WTF. You do NOT mess with children, and very few parents if any believe K through 3rd is a proper place to have these type of conversations.
2. If Trump does not announce before the midterms on his decision to run or not, every Trump supporter that feels the 2020 election was stolen, is again going to walk, crawl, or any way they can get to the polls in absolute retaliation. If no massive mail ins, Democrats will not even be close to these numbers.
3. Every Democrat on stage for the Presidential primaries threw fossil fuels under the bus. So the perception, correct or incorrect is-----------> even if they didn't do this, they are not the party to fix this, because this is what they wanted in the 1st place. Cancelling of the Keystone pipeline just cements Americans perception of this.
4. The leaving of Afghanistan was a total debacle, and this going to brought up more than Democrats think because the world is on fire. They have no logical defense for how this was handled besides it would have happened to anyone else. Problem is for them, it didn't, and you can not prove something that never happened, so they are left holding the bag for their handling of it.
5. That laptop! I actually went back yesterday and rewatched the Presidential debate between Trump and Biden moderated by Wallace; all hr and 30 something minutes of it. 90% of what Trump said was going to happen, has come to pass. Doesn't mean he said it correctly on his facts, and yet, here we are as circumstances beyond peoples control have caused them. The clip of Biden denying the money now proven to be real given to his son, is just a bridge to far for most any GOPer or even Independent, to give Biden or the Dems a pass on this one. Without Trump on the ticket to hate on, I see no way the Democrats can pull this off.
In closing, let me say I see a lot of upheaval in this election. I see a few supposed red areas turning blue because of the candidate, a lot of supposed blue areas turning red, and most purple areas turning red also. I also believe that if the Senate turns red, the Left will attempt to put another state in before the transition of power takes place, which will then cause a constitutional crisis as they will have to do it within 2 months time. Strange political times we live in for sure!
We have the parents from at LEAST two different angles, the grooming and the Summer of Love.
The gas prices are pissing off the truckers, the Uber drivers, FedEx and Amazon ...
And, the veterans and service people from several different angles also, there's Afghanistan, there's the woke military, there's the vaccines ...
And speaking of vaccines, all the Dem governors are on the shit list too.
I'll betcha though - here's my prediction - the progs will create a crisis that will make all this seem insignificant. And they'll blame it on the Pubs. Progs are good at that kind of stuff