You may want to overlook the expletives in leftist Jeb Lund’s article in the leftist Guardian arguing that Democrats lost in 2014 because they didn’t run on a left-wing platform.

The article was free — refreshingly, perhaps, in its author’s mind but self-refutingly to reality-based readers — of any evidence from polling or otherwise that leftist policies would have helped Democrats. Some of his points are valid: Alison Lundergran Grimes was foolish to refuse to say she voted for President Obama, as any wide-awake voter would assume she had; the withdrawal of the Democratic candidate in Kansas (ratified despite the letter of the law by liberal-dominated judges) was a confession of weakness; and it’s a bad campaign tactic to depend on the other parties’ candidates to make boneheaded statements as Todd Akin did in 2010, because sometimes they don’t.