HOW THE DEMOCRATS FELL INTO TRUMP’S TRAP:

Chris Murphy, the Senator from Connecticut whose name is now increasingly invoked in 2020 conversations, lamented to me that Democratic messaging has become mired in identify politics that “we have made the mistake of thinking constituency groups care only about ‘their issues.’ We talk to women about reproductive rights and African-Americans about police brutality. Those are important issues, but they all care about other things.” The Democratic economic message has “become soft,” Murphy lamented, before noting that the party needs to aggressively promise more jobs, more growth, and more opportunity for the middle class.

So basically Chris Murphy is whitesplaining things to the Dems’ leadership. Good luck with that.