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Every few elections, there is the ad. In 1964, it was a daisy flower dissolving into a mushroom cloud. In 1988, Willie Horton. In 2024, “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.” After she lost, many Democrats jumped to blame “woke” politics, but left-wing members of the party say they aren’t the ones to blame — centrists like Harris, Joe Biden, and their consultants blew it. Today, David Freedlander reports from the frontlines of the civil war in the Democratic Party.
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