Upbeat New Republic article about 2022 midterms

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For anyone else needing a pick me up this is a great op-ed on Democrats prospects in 2022.

Can Biden Defy History in 2022?
Conventional wisdom says the Democrats are finished after the midterms. But the conventional wisdom might be wrong
By Walter Shapiro

[link:https://newrepublic.com/article/163086/can-biden-defy-history-2022-midterms|

The hardest things for the Democrats to accept 14 months before the 2022 elections are the virtues of patience. If activists allow themselves to take off their dark glasses of gloom and see all the scenarios under which the Democrats could hold Congress in 2022, they might temper their unrealistic expectations about what Biden and the congressional leaders can accomplish in the next year with micrometer majorities on Capitol Hill. In a sense, one of the gravest dangers ahead—both for the Democrats and for American democracy—is the possibility of younger voters giving up on electoral politics because utopia was not achieved in the first two years of the Biden presidency. In truth, as even Isaac Newton might agree, taming a pandemic and reviving a stricken economy is a hell of a ticket to run on.