Calling Democrats ‘communists’ won’t win Gen Z — Republicans need a better offer

I’m sitting in the American Airlines Center as the first-ever Republican midterm convention gets underway in Dallas, and the energy is real. The room is loud. The crowd is locked in. People came here because they know November is not a drill.

That’s the good news.

The less comfortable news is this: just calling Democrats communists is not a strategy. Yes, they are. The agenda is collectivist. The instincts are coercive. The destination is bigger government, weaker families, and a generation...