And yet the Democratic Party, a mob of the unready, has set off to alienate the vast middle of the American electorate. It talks of socialism, as if the voters are clamoring for the government to take over General Motors. It suggests breaking up mega-companies such as Amazon, as if its customers feel abused by low prices and shazam-fast delivery. The Democratic Party has candidates who endorse universal Medicare without acknowledging its cost or what it would do to private insurance. It has candidates who support reparations for the descendants of slaves — a morally correct impracticality and, I would imagine, a hard sell in the sad areas of the country that Trump carried. Try making the argument to an out-of-work coal miner. The party has candidates such as Beto O’Rourke, a cross between James Dean and Archie Andrews, whose idea of leading is merely to listen. Does he have something to say? If not, why is he running? If the campaign is such a hardship on his kids, he ought to just stay home. O’Rourke would rewrite Marc Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, let me listen to you.