Maureen Dowd: Let’s debate: Are the Democrats doomed?

Washington • He’s in our heads.Even more than we knew.It isn’t just that he hovered over the Democratic debate Thursday night: Should the candidates attack him or leave him to self-destruct? Were they talking about him too much or not enough?It’s more profound than that.Donald Trump has fundamentally altered the way we experience politics.We’ve been trying to figure out for three years if he is a mad aberration, doomed to fade, or if he is rewiring the game in some p