How Democrats Can Win Big
The NY Times’s Thomas Edsall brings the tough love for his party
Thomas Edsall tells Mona Charen Democrats can recover from Trump's bad ratings by moderating on three fronts: transgender policy (affirm two sexes, restrict sports/prisons/youth surgery), immigration (pro-legal, pro-enforcement), and crime (oppose lenient DAs and no-bail policies).
His diagnosis: the party's become too elitist and needs working-class voters back to beat MAGA.
If the Democrats Actually Want to Win, This Is What They Have to Do
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