Looks like we lost primarily due to low Democratic voter turnout

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56. I don't disagree with you

but what gets me is the apparently pervasive perception that "the country is on the wrong track". Makes a wonderful, repeatable sound bite for any number of talking heads sagely analyzing the election. But I'm puzzled. What the hell does it mean?
I doubt that more than 1 in 10 citizens, if you held a gun to their head could tell you with any specificity what they mean when they say it. Is the country "on the wrong track" because gasoline is slightly higher than we remember it being during Trump? Is it that someone on Fox said that our borders have collapsed and waves of blood-thirsty immigrant stone killers are even now on their way to your town to rape your wife and daughters before they slaughter you? Or, perhaps are we giving way too ,much importance to "THEM" (fill in the ethnic/religious/racial group of your choice)?
My point is that trying to use this term as an explanation is not really saying anything concrete. It is just a placeholder instead of revealing an amorphous discontent many of us have but can't even truly verbalize. Politicians can't address it because those voters don't even truly understand it. However, in an election period the same voters jump to it as a plausible, acceptable explanation to give to others when questioned about why they voted the way they did.