The Democrats’ growing extremism will surely backfire

Published August 14, 2026 6:05am ET



For more than a decade, Democrats have watched Donald Trump succeed with a brand of politics that is crude, often coarse, and always volatile. They have agonized, mostly unproductively, about how to defeat it. They tried various strategies, and all ultimately failed. Now they are trying another that is doomed.

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