They’re right: Two parties competing in winner-take-all elections cannot reflect the diversity of 335 million Americans.

West Virginia, almost all white, was a Democratic state until 2000 (since that year it’s voted Republican in every presidential election). If you look at county-by-county national electoral maps, 2000 is the year when vast rural areas turned decisively and permanently red. Something more than just the Democrats’ principled embrace of the Black free

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Yet the weakness of the moderates’ influence, this time on the Democratic side, was quickly revealed. Over the next few months, the news was monopolized by partisans on the left, who tried to redefine their party as champions of expanded and progressive government—with new entitlements for families, a “green new deal” for the world, a debt jubilee

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