This will not be a close election, as the media keep telling us. That at least will be the silver lining. A surprising number of the people see through a surprising amount of this media falsification.
I hope you're right.
I do believe this is a bell-weather election. This will be the best test I can imagine.
If the Ds can take the most successful major war in American history and paint it as a failure . . . if the Ds can convince people that this just war was not worth fighting . . . then a modern democracy can't survive in a media-dominated society.