Why Aren’t Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms? Democrats miss Trump’s political gifts and the real threat he represents.; The New York Times, November 2, 2018

Bret Stephens, The New York Times;

Why Aren’t Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms?

Democrats miss Trump’s political gifts and the real threat he represents.

"I have written previously that the real threat of the Trump presidency isn’t economic or political catastrophe. It’s moral and institutional corrosion — the debasement of our discourse and the fracturing of our civic bonds. Democrats should be walking away with the midterms. That they are not is because they have consistently underestimated the president’s political gifts, while missing the deeper threat his presidency represents.

There’s a lesson here worth heeding. Our economic GDP may be booming, but our moral GDP is in recession."