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The Trump-opposition business

From TNR, it’s the culture, stupid: Identity politics isn’t the problem for Democrats — it’s the solution. How can Democrats survive? They need to make a sharp, decisive left. Democrats’ biggest donor Tom Steyer demands candidates pledge to impeach Trump. Anti-monopoly candidates are testing a new politics in the midterms. How Elizabeth Warren became the soul of the Democratic Party. Can Bob Iger and the rest of America’s CEOs take their fawning media enablers and fuck off to Neverland, forever? Stop flogging CEOs for president. Democrats must embrace progressive candidates to win in Trump’s America. Brian Steinberg on how Joy Reid took on Trump and became MSNBC’s new star.

Hey, Democrats, stop complaining — you’re actually winning. Biden wants “compromise” — progressives don’t want to hear it. Bernie Sanders isn’t a Democrat — thank God. Preet Bharara is now in the Trump-opposition business. Trump has been great for the economy — the anti-Trump economy, that is. College lecturer Lars Maischak tweeted, “Trump must hang” — he doesn’t regret it. Clintonian Democrats are peddling myths to cling to power. Bernie Sanders isn’t winning local elections for the Left. “We should be unrelenting”: David Remnick on journalism in the era of Trump and the Internet. Democrats have a real chance to beat Roy Moore — they should take it.

The impeachment litmus test is dividing Democrats. What Democrats must do: The Democratic Party’s pursuit of well-off whites undermined its ability to deliver gains for all workers — going forward, it must place the multiracial working class at the center of its political vision.