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The Dems need a course-correction of monumental proportions — and must start validating voters

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Donald Trump's re-election is a humiliating, dystopic nightmare for the progressive left, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Progressives can't grasp how Trump assembled a multi-racial working class coalition that rejects their out-of-touch worldview.

He says Democrats need to shift back to the political center where most voters reside.

The opiate of the abortion issue may have salvaged the midterm congressional elections but only delayed a deeper reckoning of the corpus.

Like the Phoenix , the Trump victory could be the best thing to happen to Democrats if they shift to the center with an emphasis on building things rather than tearing the other side down. But to do that, the Democratic clerics who lead groupthink will have to step up and say no to the mainstream media and cable voices — along with activists and politicians who all have their narrow, self-serving motivations to be the morality leaders of Resist 2.0. Julian Epstein is the former Democratic chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee ..

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