Viewpoint

“The 2018 vote administered enough Democratic disappointment to check the party’s most self-destructive tendencies. If Beto O’Rourke had eked it out in Texas, Democrats might well have nominated him for president in 2020, almost guaranteeing a debacle. There is no progressive majority in America. There is no progressive plurality in America. And there certainly is no progressive Electoral College coalition in America. It may not be right that the middle of the country exerts radically more political weight than the coasts, or that white votes typically count for more than nonwhite votes. Right or not, those things are true, and as long as they remain true, political realists must reckon with them. The struggle for liberal democracy is too real and too dangerous for hearts undirected by heads.” David Frum in TheAtlantic.com