A DEMOCRAT-leaning astronaut returning to Earth from a rendezvous with Mars after a successful lift-off sometime before the November 2020 election votes were counted (after reading all the pundits’ prognostication of a Joe Biden win) would find his planet alien to him, a strange cradle of democracy under a one-party rule: all three branches of the US government in Republican hands. What happened?Politico — an influential news organization — had issued its final prediction in 2019 that, with Joe Biden as the favorite in most polls, the Democrats would win the White House; control of the Senate could go either…