It’ll be weeks and months till we have a detailed understanding of how people voted, but the hot take factory is operating at full speed and Democrats are already arguing about what happened—including contentiously in the press. I break down some of the arguments from progressive and moderate Democratic House members. So far, the progressives have the data on their side. But let’s ask a bigger question: what if Democrats, after they won, simply acted like it?

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