Alright, to help suss out the demographics, for those you're referring to, where would you put them on the spectrum of left<->center, in terms of where they get their information? Also, how active they are in keeping up with politics?
I'm not trying to contradict you or anything; I'm trying to work out exactly what demographic is being influenced by the prevailing media/"loud" progressive narrative.
Uh, kind of the middle — that is, not "center", but "in the middle of left and center"; mainstream left-leaning news. Not very active in keeping up with politics, I'd judge, pretty much the demographic you're supposed to get the vote out to. Which I figure is probably the problem, since they were told "this could be the most important election of your lifetime!" and everyone tried to get them out the vote, and then the result was just "as expected" and everything didn't change.
I see where you're coming from, but I still disagree. If people get unreasonably hype about a thing, then haz a sad when the thing isn't hype, even though the thing is demonstrably what it was *reasonably* expected to be, that just means those people are lolnoobs.
I mean that's fine but you're still gonna have trouble getting the "lolnoobs" to come back next time when you're looking Four More Years down the barrel
ETA: To elaborate further, my original point was that saying "Hey, the blue wave worked out fine, look at all the gains we made in even reaching gridlock in the first place!" when all they see is a cloud of vague disappointment only reinforces the idea they already had that their votes can't "change anything" (because the change they expect is honestly insane), and it's probably better in the long run to downplay it and just say "well, that sucked, hey, it's a midterm, can't have everything, see you again in two years" and hope they cheer up by then.