In the 2024 presidential election, President Trump swept all seven swing states, won the popular vote, defied the polls and shocked Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats with his decisive victory. In the days that followed, I heard from several high-level Democratic operatives who shared essentially the same message: We are done being bullied into unpopular, losing positions by the far-left wing of our party, they said. We will get back to our roots of looking after the working class, the poor and the disenfranchised, they said.

Except they didn’t. Exactly the opposite.

Seven months after Trump redefined how to win a presidential campaign, Democrats have been backed deeper into a corner by the far-left activists they still fear, whose creed contains only three fundamental dogmata: Trump-hatred, perpetual self-victimhood, and identity politics as the center and source of all decisions.

All three of those doctrines were strongly rejected by the majority of voters in 2024, including an increasing number of Black and Hispanic men, non-white voters in general, the disenfranchised, younger people and independent voters. The reason was obvious to everyone paying attention: Trump-hatred, forever victimhood, and identity politics are not policies. They are........

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