Democrats Are (Finally) Doing Their Due Diligence to Beat Trump
The large candidate field is good for the Democrats, so long as they treat it as their preseason training. Come game time, their leader will be ready.
Though political pundits and observers have analyzed Donald Trump’s electoral win to death, ultimately, it can be summed up in one word: complacency. Such complacency was perhaps understandable for Democrats — after all, Barack Obama was, and still is, a broadly popular president, making a Hillary Clinton administration feel inevitable, and the Republican primary often devolved into a farcical circus — but nonetheless, it was fatal.
That won’t happen to Democrats again. This primary season has so far been the toughest, most competitive, and most demanding my generation has ever seen. This means that whoever secures the nomination will have earned it; their policy ideas will be refined and their campaign’s style will feel like second nature. Candidates will have the battle scars to prove it.
Democrats have learned the consequence of essentially ignoring states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania; indeed, former Vice President Joe Biden is staking his entire 2020 candidacy on his ability to appeal to voters in those areas. Democrats…
