Dem Recipe to Win? Become GOP!
...at least until they get elected!
M. Walter | February 23, 2026
Fight! Fight! We’ve got blue on blue fighting here, and the bruises are big and red.
A fellow by the name of Will Marshall, the founder and president of The Progressive Policy Institute, recently penned a piece for The Hill entitled “The midterms aren’t enough — Democrats must campaign for the White House” in which he dons a Republican skin suit.
He says (among many other things we will shortly go into), “Democrats owe working people ... more than performative attacks on billionaires and new handouts from Washington.”
That’s funny, because that’s literally, exactly what another prominent progressive, The New Republic’s editor, Michael Tomasky, prescribed just recently as a must-do: Give the middle class lots of free stuff and a “villain” in fat-cat corporate types. This is what you’d expect a progressive to say. Mr. Tomasky took 10,000 words to say it, but that was the upshot.
But Mr. Marshall’s advice, as you will shortly see, is so opposite that of Mr. Tomasky’s that it makes me wonder if he slogged through his circumlocution and decided to be contrary just to spite him for taking so damned long to say it. Because boy, howdy, did Mr. Marshall throw the wine glasses at the wall and go contrary. What’s his big idea to win the White House? It all sounds very familiar — if you’re a Republican!
On immigration, Democrats are right to demand an end to brutal enforcement tactics. But where do they stand on the underlying issue of securing the border and enforcing U.S. immigration laws? Democrats must reassure voters they won’t repeat the Biden administration’s colossal error of making it easy for people to enter the country without permission. They should reaffirm the Obama and Clinton administration’s resolute opposition to illegal immigration. And they should reject “Sanctuary City” declarations as a gratuitous exercise in progressive moral preening.
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