about the Merlot Democrats: Is a party in which they represent a large number of voters likely to take Noam Scheiber’s advice? I think it does not oversimplify that advice to say that Scheiber wants the Democrats to move right on national security and culture and left on economics. That’s the right strategic advice, I think, if continued liberal support for a party that did those things could be assumed. But it seems to me that large, and in some ways dominant, parts of the party are much more emotionally invested in cultural and foreign-policy liberalism than in lunch-pail liberalism.