Any Democrat who’s being honest, including President-elect Joe Biden, will admit that the outcome of the 2020 election was not a repudiation of President Trump’s agenda. It was a rejection of Trump, the person.

That’s why the opening pitch of Biden’s sleepy campaign wasn’t, “Here’s my platform to replace everything the president has done.” No, his theme was “restoring the soul of America,” a hazy concept that, at its core, was really a promise that Biden would be a quiet president who didn’t pop off on Twitter and didn’t have fights with the press (not that it would make sense for him to fight his most ardent supporters anyway).