25 Lessons Democrats Will Take From Their Horrible 2020 Performance

"1. RUSSIA!!!!
2. RUSSIA!!!!
3. Should have run a more right wing candidate.
4. RUSSIA!!!!
5. Should have given more money to the Lincoln Project.
6. This is still Susan Sarandon's fault"
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7. Get Pelosi to say "Wakanda forever!" at the next State of the Union address.

8. Bernie Sanders: secretly Russian?? Demand investigation by Special Counsel.

9. Demand more internet censorship. Threaten antitrust cases if necessary.

10. RUSSIA!!!!
11. Was there a Green Party candidate this year? Find out. If yes, they're Russian.

12. Get the Krassenstein brothers their own MSNBC show.

13. Breast hats.

14. Kente cloth surrender flag.

15. Re-appoint Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to DNC chair.

16. IRAN!!!! (plot twist!)
17. Spend more time on Twitter yelling at leftists for being too far left.

18. Get Steve Bannon to join the #Resistance.

19. Tell voters if they start supporting Dems they'll be rewarded with economic sanctions on geostrategically valuable nations on the other side of the world
20. Try doing literally nothing and see if that helps.

21. Try giving Trump everything he wants and see if that helps.

22. Get wealthy celebrities to shame voters.

23. See if Ted Cruz will run as a Dem in 2024.
24. Find out what "QAnon" is, then see if maybe we can do something similar.

25. RUSSIA!!!!

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