Citing the outcome of the House and Senate races in 2020, some left-leaning commentators think that Trump should be off limits as a topic of discussion in the midterm elections. Are they right?
It depends on the district, but mostly no. The problem with talking about Trump in 2020 is that the connection between GOP House and Senate candidates and Trump’s pandemic response was very thin. If the candidate in question effectively supported the rioters by denying the legitimacy of Biden’s election, by voting against impeachment, and by rejecting the investigation of 1/6, his complicity in Trump’s efforts to destroy liberal democracy will be clear, and should be discussed openly in 2022.