Libertarian vs Authoritarian: I don’t see how a “fighting” Democratic Party can hope to win back the Senate, let alone build what every fighting liberal claims to want — the kind of durable majority that could actually marginalize Trumpism and populism — if it doesn’t admit to itself that what happened in 2024 wasn’t just about Joe Biden’s age or Elon Musk’s algorithm. It was also an ideological referendum, and progressivism lost.