Resistance Isn’t a Real Strategy for the Democrats: Clive Crook

Nearly nine months after Donald Trump’s reelection, Democrats still can’t make sense of it. Only the faintest glimmers of a reset are visible. The only thing that might pass for a strategy seems to be the hope that, given time, voters will finally come to their senses: It’s the people who need to think again, not the politicians who are asking for their support.

Given Trump’s recklessness, this approach isn’t in fact doomed to fail — yet his opponents need to do better. How, exactly? What should a Democratic reset look like?

Let’s move quickly past what’s obvious, or ...