this may not be their time, and donnie may not be their man, but make no mistake:

[regnaD kciN]

7. First thing we need to do is be successful in stopping the pandemic...

...while causing minimal damage to the economy. (Keeping in mind that any hit to the latter over the next half-year or so will be corrected long before election day...IF we can bring the pandemic under control and are able to really reopen by the end of next year.)

The second thing we need to resolve to do as Democrats is go out there and vote in 2022! If you look at past history, Dems are great at turning out for presidential-year elections, and midterms when out of power, but we really suck at the latter when we're in power. Witness 1994, 2010, and 2014. Some may think that "midterms don't matter," as long as we have our guy in the White House to stop any Republican stunts in Congress -- but 2016 proved that such a strategy only puts you one popular/electoral vote split away from handing the reich-wingers total control. Some other Democrats may get disillusioned by the new president failing to enact their agenda 100%, and stay home the next midterm to "send them a message" (I remember lots of people here and on similar sites saying they'd do the same in 2010 because Obama hadn't managed a public option in ACA and/or hadn't pulled troops out of Afghanistan -- to paraphrase Caribou Barbie, how did that messagey-sendy thing work out for you, guys?) We need to make sure that each and every Democrat turns out in 2022 to help us hold the House and take back the Senate.