AS USUAL, DEMOCRATS TOOK ALL THE WRONG LESSONS FROM 2024–AND CONTINUE TO BASE THEIR ENTIRE PLATFORM ON REACTION

Moira Donegan writes in The Guardian: “They respond to polling and to a vague sense of the cultural zeitgeist, aiming less to persuade than to imitate. Often, Democrats seem as if they are not offering a different policy vision for the country so much as they are offering a different stylistic one: the same austerity, cultural revanchism and inequality but in a more polite package.”