What will Democrats learn from Trumps re-election? Nothing!

You’d think Donald Trump’s remarkable comeback would inspire some soul-searching in the Democratic Party.You’d be wrong.Rather than a deep reflection about their coalitional strategy and an adjustment of policy emphases, pundits are instead looking for scapegoats.First culprit: sexism.

Peter Baker in the New York Times is a representative example: “Mr.Trump’s latest victory also adds ammunition to the argument that the country is not ready for a woman in the Oval Office.”Some Democrats, led perhaps by Barack Obama, Kamala Harris’ surrogate-in-chief in recent weeks, will blame Joe Biden.By refusing to accept the reality that he had grown too old for the job, they’ll argue, Biden forced the choice of a successor too late and outside the normal consensus-building primary process.Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that, in fact, Kamala had done a great job, the problem was she just didn’t have enough time.Biden will also be blamed for his epic gaffe last week of calling Trump’s supporters “garbage.”Other Democrats will argue that they were just unlucky.

Inflation was under control, but that fact hadn’t yet filtered into the public consciousness, they will claim.They may argue that the assassination attempt offered an unearned reset for former President Trump while simultaneously increasing public sympathy for him.More Democrats will indict Trump for conning the American people and fearmongering to attract working-class minority votes.As the Times’ Lisa Lerer wrote: “He wooed Black and Latino voters with false claims that migrants were stealing their jobs and were responsible for a wave of violent crime.”Having absolved themselves of full responsibility for their loss, Democrats will then see no reason to change.Instead, they will do exactly what they did in the first Trump term: Resist.They will advance the narrative that Trump’s White House is an unprecedented and chaotic engine of constitutional norm-breaking, international in...