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I think that presidents and political parties get more blame for the economy than they deserve, so I'm sympathetic to people arguing that one of the primary reasons that Democrats are taking a drubbing this season is that the economy is bad. But there seems to be an epidemic of people arguing that Democrats bear no responsibility at all for their current fate, and I find that extraordinarily unconvincing.
Rereading our own Josh Green's excellent
2009 profile of Chuck Schumer, I'm struck again by the phenomenal miscalculations--I'm tempted to say arrogance--of the Democratic Party. They really believed that the 2008 election had given them an...
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