Good politics alone won’t win in 2021 midterm elections

Many Democrats are leery about the party's ability to retain control of Congress in 2022. The president's party normally loses ground in midterm elections, and Democrats have little margin for error. Lose a half-dozen House seats, and the Biden administration will find itself stymied; lose the Senate, and total paralysis will set in: zombie government personified by Sen. Mitch McConnell.

It's been …