Both parties made assumptions about people that were wrong. We are in a battle for America's soul, and we have to restore it. For a long time, we've told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it's not. Will that strategy work for Democrats again?
It’s March 2013. The G.O.P., in tatters, issues a scathing report blaming its electoral failures on an out-of-touch leadership that ignores minorities at its own peril. Just three years later, Donald Trump proves his party dead wrong. Today, how certain assumptions took hold of both parties — and what they’re still getting wrong — heading into the midterm elections.