Recovering alcoholics know their first step must be to admit that they have a problem. Democrats are beginning to learn the same thing when pondering their inability to govern.

A couple of months after President Donald Trump’s reelection, Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria noted that “90 percent of U.S. counties moved right” in the 2024 election, concluding that “people seem to feel that they have been taxed, regulated, bossed around and intimidated by left-of-center politicians for decades – and the results are bad and have been getting worse.”