Sometimes, defeat is just what a party, or a movement, needs. Hard lessons are learnt, uncomfortable realities are acknowledged and the group in question emerges more serious, more competitive, more potent a political force.
In recent years, liberals and conservatives have often failed to learn the right lessons from their losses because they won’t accept defeat in the first place.
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