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I thoroughly enjoyed Bret Stephens’s column last week imagining The New York Times news analysis the morning after President Trump’s re-election. But I also think Trump is more likely to lose than win in 2020. So I decided to offer my own fictional look into the future and write a would-be news analysis for the morning after Trump’s defeat. You can read it here.

Along the way, I offer some implicit advice for the Democrats. In his latest column, Bret went a step further and offered some explicit advice.

A couple of notes:

Bret chose to make Elizabeth Warren the Democratic nominee for president in his column, and I followed his lead. I happen to agree that Warren is a front-runner. I’d also put Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the top tier, with Kirsten Gillibrand and Mitch Landrieu not far behind — and many others have a shot.