In the immediate aftermath of Trump’s election, the winds seemed to be blowing Democrats toward policy moderation and the political center. Now — with public frustration about affordability and cost of living undiminished and the second Trump administration behaving like a self-dealing cohort of self-interested oligarchs — the rhetorical weather looks as though it has changed. But not everyone is reading the patterns in exactly the same way: If the Democrats want to reposition themselves as the party of the people, they have different ideas about what that should entail.