The Democrats are nearly three weeks removed from their first popular vote defeat in a presidential contest in two decades and are riven about how to avoid a similar defeat in four years.

President-elect Donald Trump pulled off one of the most impressive and historic political comebacks in U.S. history, pulling House and Senate candidates along with him as the country appears to be veering rightward. President Joe Biden listened to the historians telling him that he could be the next Franklin Delano Roosevelt and misunderstood the “mandate” voters gave him in 2020 not to be Trump.