Why Democrats Are Tripping All Over Themselves

By John B. Judis and John Guida

Mr. Judis writes the newsletter Foreign & Domestic and is a co-author of “Where Have All the Democrats Gone?” Mr. Guida is an editor in Times Opinion.

Graham Platner’s implosion in his race in Maine for a U.S. Senate seat looks like another chapter in the Democratic Party’s identity crisis as well as in the tumult of current American politics.

The writer John Judis has tracked the trajectory and shifting identity of the Democratic Party for decades — particularly in his........

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