How Democrats Reversed the Script on the GOP

After so many years in which our British cousins have adopted American political tactics, Democrats finally took a page from Westminster. He was sick with Covid-19, quite literally lacking a voice to defend himself, and, one of his advisers told me, facing a coming letter organized in part by Sen. Patty Murray that included at least 20 members of his beloved Senate calling for him to step down. He would be stumbling into Chicago had he not called for a June debate and may have survived that night had it not been for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s relentlessness. Yet it doesn’t take the analytical powers of Freud to assess why so many Republicans are furious or just plain frustrated at the Democrats’ switch and are taking it out on the media: The non-MAGA Republicans only wish they could pull off what their opposition did last month. “Robert Frost once said that ‘home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in,’” said Paul Begala, one of the architects of Clinton’s 1992 victory.