A recent Washington Post/Ipsos poll put Democrats up just 48 percent to 45 percent on that same generic ballot question. Now we’re in the Fourth Era, and the next consensus in American politics has not been fully set. (RELATED: American Education Is in Almost Irredeemable Decline)Forget about the fact that they screwed Sanders out of the nomination both times. For 20 years we’ve watched the Democrats abandon the idea of finding the center of American politics and/or winning political arguments on the merits. They created this gain-of-function stupid-communist incursion into American politics, thinking it wouldn’t make them sick.