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The Democrats are not changing ideologically like the Republicans
The Democrats are amazingly unified on their priorities right now. I say this as a lifelong Democratic activist who has spent much of his life agonizing over our party’s celebrated “circular firing squad.” More often that not, it seems that we manage to shoot ourselves in the foot. After all, it was about the Democratic party that Will Rogers famously quipped “I do not belong to an organized political party.”
That unity is in part thanks to Trump. Indeed, a recent poll showed that most Democrats — 56% — would support a candidate they disagreed with on most points if he or she could defeat Trump.
Some might argue that this unity is the mirror image of the personality cult that has developed within the Republican party over Trump. But I think the Democrats are taking this position not just because of Trump — although disgust over his personality certainly is one driver — but because of the policies he has put in place.
For example, Democrats were amazingly unified over the wall, Obamacare, the tax bill, and Brett Kavanaugh. At the same time, they were willing to vote for a bipartisan package that would reform federal mandatory sentencing — an accomplishment led by Jared…
