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Guest Essay

By Thomas B. Edsall

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.

The underlying premise of my column last week outlining a hypothetical 2028 Democratic platform was that the party’s highest priority is to restore the credibility and public respect it lost over the past decade.

The collapse of trust resulted from excesses on the left — including President Joe Biden’s misjudgments on immigration, particularly along the border; some of the more immoderate policies promoted in the wake of the killing of George Floyd; and support for gender policies that alienated millions of voters. And that’s before we get to the willingness of liberal institutions to abandon freedom of speech in favor........

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