I’ve resisted the temptation to rail every day about Trump’s cruelty, corruption and incompetence – and the cowardice of Republicans who know it’s wrong, but go along.

Instead, I’ve tried to understand how Democrats could be so bad that voters elected Trump again.

I’ve searched for lessons to learn.

I’ve waded through a flood of polls, podcasts, op-eds and post-mortems.

One nugget stands out.

The New York Times/Ipsos poll in January found a gulf as big as the Gulf of Mexico between voters’ priorities and what they see as the Democratic Party’s priorities.

Voters said the issues most important to them were the economy and inflation, health care and immigration.

They said the issues most important to Democrats were abortion, LGBTQ rights and climate change.

Now, this doesn’t mean Democrats should abandon these issues. We’re right to stand for them, and voters agree with us on them.

But it’s a matter of what matters most to most voters.

If we don’t pay attention and address their main concerns, we won’t win.

If we don’t win, we can’t do anything about abortion, LGBTQ rights, climate change – or about the economy and inflation, health care and immigration.

It isn’t that voters love Trump. The poll found they’re deeply divided between celebration and concern over his election.

It isn’t enough to hope that, if we just lay back on the ropes and let him punch himself out, voters will turn against him and Republicans and to us.

We have to give them something to turn to and a reason to turn out.

That means paying attention to voters, not preaching at them.

That’s a lesson worth learning.