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The Inside the Democratic Party, in its back rooms and its group chats and its conferences, and its online flame wars, an increasingly bitter debate has taken

hold over what the party needs to do to become capable of beating back Trumpism. Do Democrats

need to become more populist, more moderate, more socialist? Do they need to embrace the

abundance agenda? Do they need to produce more vertical

video? The answer is, yes, they do. All of them. But none of them in particular.

The Democratic Party does not need to choose to be one thing. It needs to choose to be more things.

In a few days, there will be elections for governor of New Jersey, for mayor of New York City, and for governor of Virginia. Democrats are

leading in all these races. As of now, polling averages show the Democrat up by about seven points

in Virginia and about four in New Jersey. But these aren't unusual

leads in what have become reliably democratic states. You can imagine a world where the violence

and corruption of Donald Trump's first nine months in office had led to a collapse in support

for him and his party. We'll see what Election Day actually brings,

but we do not look to be in that world.

Donald Trump is not beating himself.

That's all the more true if you look a year out to the midterms.

In the Real Clear Politics polling average,

Democrats are leading by about two and a half points

when you ask Americans which party they want to see control Congress.

At about this time in 2017,

Democrats were up by about 10 points in that very same average.

To win the House back next year,

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