President Donald Trump has brought American democracy to the brink. But Democrats should not moderate any of their positions, for the sake of disempowering him.

This is a popular pair of positions among progressives, despite the apparent tension between them.

As the New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, a Vox co-founder, argued last week, many of those most alarmed by Trump “don’t embrace what I think obviously follows from that alarm, which is the willingness to make strategic and political decisions you find personally discomfiting, even though they are obviously more likely to help you win.”

Klein’s perspective isn’t hard to understand. There are inevitably trade-offs between political expediency and ideological purity. The less deference you give to public opinion, the greater your r

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