I have to give the guy props for conceding reality.

And that is the reality, and author Damon Linker knows it.

Many here are undoubtedly disappointed that Trump may very well lose this election, particularly given that the ultimate outcome is now in the hands of Democratic-controlled city political machines, but make no mistake, that big blue wave turned into placid lake, and Trump was no fluke.

"In the expectations game, the Democratic Party whiffed and whiffed badly… Democrats have almost certainly failed to win a Senate majority, and so far they have lost some ground in the House as well (while still on track to maintain control of the lower chamber of Congress).

That means that Biden is on track to be a weak, ineffectual president governing at the mercy of Mitch McConnell's Machiavellian machinations."

As an aside, "Mitch McConnell's Machiavellian machinations," would make for a great Ben & Jerry's flavor.

"So much for the Democratic fantasy — the one that seemingly never dies — of unobstructed rule."

"There will be no court packing. No added states. Nothing from the toxic progressive-fantasy wishlist will come anywhere close to passing."

Yeah, they probably should have kept those parts on the down low.

"So please, Democrats, look in the mirror and show a little humility. You're not nearly as self-evidently wonderful or widely loved as you'd like to believe. You are not destined to prevail anywhere. You share a country with a large group of people who hate your guts, and who aren't going to submit to your rule or go along with your giddy plans to remake the nation in your image. It's time to start acting like you understand this implacable fact and all it implies about the limits of your power and the parameters of the possible."

You have to admire someone who is genuinely reality-based. He is disappointed, make no mistake about that. Sorrowful even, that "the toxic progressive-fantasy wishlist" is likely dead in the water. But keep in mind that he was saying this just the day before.

"So we're expected to believe that a guy who won last time by a grand total of 80,000 votes scattered across three states when he was almost 4 points behind in national polls is now going to win when he's more than 8 points behind in national polls? Sure, that could happen. But only if Trump benefits from the most drastic, consistent, systematic error in the history of modern polling."

Well, what do you know, we did have the most drastic, consistent, systematic error in the history of modern polling, and until the pollsters make a genuine attempt to understand an electorate from which they have grown so culturally, geographically, academically, and socially distant, there will be many more such errors in the future.

Will anyone on the left listen to this voice of reason?

It's not looking good.