The only thing the parties can agree on is that Donald Trump is the central issue of our time.

Let’s start with a recent headline: “It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump.”

“After a year of soul-searching and introspection by Democrats about what they should stand for after losing the White House and Senate in 2024,” Shane Goldmacher of the New York Times writes, “the party is largely coalescing behind the same message that has united it for the past decade: stopping Donald J. Trump.”

Now, I confess to having missed a great deal of soul-searching and introspection among Democrats, but I am reminded of a different search that happened two decades ago: the search for “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.

For those too young to remember, the George W. Bush administratio

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