Why Democrats should want to lose this election

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James Carville would rather Republicans keep the House. He may be right, and the Democrats who make it happen may end up saving their own party.

For decades, the choice inside the voting booth was automatic for lifelong Democrats. You looked for the “D” next to a candidate’s name, confident that it represented a familiar tradition.

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