Can Democrats reboot their old winning ways?

Yes, says Democratic campaign consultant Paul Begala, "Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time."

By which he means, yes, the party can respond to its famously diverse constituencies while also reaching out to the working-class, middle-class and mostly white voters who have swung mostly to Republicans and, most recently, to President Donald Trump since at least the mid-1960s.

That new surge of outreach optimism among Democrats like