Despite infighting, Democrats can still unite around a common goal

Some in the party are flirting with socialism. Others are sparring over Israel. But there's one thing they all agree on.

- JONAH GOLDBERG COLUMNIST

MARK SCHIEFELBEIN Associated Press

PRESIDENT TRUMP is unifying for Democrats and Republicans in very different ways.

THE ONLY THING the parties can agree on is that Donald Trump is the central issue of our time.

Let's start with a recent headline: "It's 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump."

"After a year of soul-searching and introspection by Democrats about what they should stand for after losing the White House and Senate in 2024," Shane Goldmacher of the New York Times writes, "the party is largely coalescing behind the same message that has united it for the past decade: stopping Donald J. Trump."

Now, I confess to having missed a great deal of soul-searching and introspection among Democrats, but I am reminded of a very different search that happened two decades ago: the search for "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.

While you might think I am going for some weird metaphor comparing President Trump to a WMD, that's not my point.

For those too young to remember, the George W. Bush administration focused on Saddam Hussein's WMD program as the major - some would say sole-justification for toppling the Iraqi dictator.

This became more controversial after U.S. forces failed to find the WMDS the Bush administration, and others, said were there. For opponents of the war, this turned into the refrain that Bush had "lied America into war."