The shock of losing to President Donald Trump a second time has inspired the biggest bout of Democratic introspection since the 1980s.

Since Trump’s reelection, new groups and initiatives to reconsider the Democratic message and agenda have proliferated. Though these efforts have emerged across the party’s ideological spectrum, many of them argue that Democrats must move toward the center, particularly on cultural issues, to recapture working-class voters who have shifted toward the GOP since Trump’s emergence as its national leader.

Those calls echo the warnings during the 1980s from the party centrists who created a group called the Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC spent the late 1980s banging heads with more liberal constituencies before ultimately capturing control of the par

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