I was going to write a story about this, but i think you covered it :)

The election was not about trump, it was about extremism on the left, as you said.

Losing the senate and probably the house too, is a bigger story than losing to trump.

this was a humiliating thrashing for the democrats. Will they learn?

in sports, after a loss, you look at the game film and see what went wrong and fix it ... bad coaches blame the refs, dont look at film, and complain about everything... and the team gets worse