I can explain.

Even though the Democrats have the majority in the Senate, they don’t have a filibuster-proof majority, so in order to get bills to the floor with 60 votes they have to cut deals with Mitch.

For the next two years, nothing except judicial appointments gets through our government without Mitch’s blessing. And people wondered why he was so eager to sell us out, because by losing the Presidency and the Senate he just became the most powerful man in Washington.

You could say that he “shorted” the election.