Look, this is real simple: How did the Dems get 'back' from being down 55-45 (or whatever it was) and on the brink of us getting 60 Senate votes? They did it by getting their core to hammer, hammer, hammer, 24-7, with NO defectors. How many times in military history have large, ponderous armies of mercenaries and half-hearted been routed by much smaller forces of cohesive, committed troops?
o who, in your analogy, is the “large, ponderous armies of mercenaries”?