For two years Democrats have raged over Donald Trump’s presidency, quarreled among themselves over the best strategy for responding to it, and above all, counted the days until next month’s midterm election.
The biggest political questions facing Democrats, needless to say, all remain to be decided on election night. But that doesn’t mean the tempestuous 2018 campaign season hasn’t already sent important signals — both encouraging and ominous — about the Democrats’ future against a Republican Party that Trump is reshaping in his image.
What follows is an attempt to identify some of the most important trends already evident on each side of that ledger for Democrats — along with a few critical questions that remain very much to be decided. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN