President Woodrow Wilson committed a strategic error by attempting to equate the Democratic Party with American identity during the 1918 midterm elections.

“The other thing that's happening in 2018 and what what Teddy um what Woodrow Wilson did badly was he became so invested in the idealism of his cause and in his very um principled strictness, if you will, that he made a really bad mistake going into the election of 2000, it keeps doing that, of 1918,”