If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the Democratic Party of 2020 really admires the Republican Party of 2016.

Each began a presidential campaign with a large, diverse field of attractive young people whom it saw as the face of a new generation. Each saw this field blown away by some noisy, old man with a fanatical following who hailed from one of New York’s outer boroughs.

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