Sarah Longwell

It's not doing things the way everybody wants.

So and also Democrats now have a structural advantage.

We're in off year elections.

More of their people turn out than a lot of these low propensity voters who turn out and vote for Trump.

So we're dealing with all those realities.

Those are good for Democrats.

That is not enough to save America.

Saving America is a root and branch operation for this version of the Republican Party.

And so for any Democrat who soothes themselves entirely by what is happening in 2026, I would just like you to say, continue to gird your loins for a long-term fight.

This is a generational challenge.

And...

just one election won't be enough.

Like, it is necessary.

It is necessary to stop the bleeding, but it is insufficient for the long-term project of beating back the toxic forces that Donald Trump has unleashed on America, and that will require real changes

from the Democratic Party, real thoughtfulness about the kinds of candidates they nominate, what a big tent looks like, what their purity tests are going to be, what issues they need to do to meet average Americans, like I was talking about with immigration and having to sort of moderate there on some of these issues and on some of the social issues.

What I don't want is for anybody to think, yeah, we're going to crush in 26 and like that that's enough because it's not.

Yeah, I don't know.

This is where I think what Chuck Schumer should do

is preside over an orderly transition that helps... I mean, this is what Nancy Pelosi did.

And this is what Joe Biden would have done had he been not a narcissist.