Adam Serwer says the Democrats lost, but they shouldn’t act defeated.
Democrats and liberals would do well to learn from the GOP’s discipline in the aftermath of 2008. They should ignore the empty demands from media opinion-makers to “tack to the center,” and double their efforts to, if not get progressive legislation passed, articulate why progressive solutions can help solve problems Republicans don’t even want to acknowledge. The Republican identity-politics narrative that Tuesday’s results represent Real America Taking Back Its Country is belied by the actual results.