Of all the problems facing Democrats in Donald Trump’s second term, perhaps an underrated issue is the natural tendency of politicians to put their own interests ahead of the greater good of the party. Democrats who make a habit of bashing colleagues from a different faction are the most conspicuous culprits, and a few have even taken to trashing the party as a whole.

Then there’s former U.S. senator Sherrod Brown. After appearing on the ballot in Ohio 18 times (the first when he was 21 and successfully ran for the state legislature) and winning all but twice, he has earned a quiet retirement. And if he were inclined to run for office again in his rapidly reddening state, you’d figure after 32 years in Congress he’d prefer to run for governor. Ohio’s current governor, Republican Mike DeWine, is term-limited. The likely 2026 GOP nominee for that gig, tech tyro and Trump Bro Vivek Ramaswamy, might be a nice foil for Brown, the very prototype of a rumpled, working-class-oriented Democratic populist. There has been plenty of talk about a gubernatorial bid........

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