‘Democrats need to not blow it’: our panel reacts to the historic midterms | Panel

Democrats should take the right lessons from their great night - but will they?

Trump has been a disaster for our country. His economic plans are incoherent, the Iran war is making inflation worse, and his complicity with Israel's crimes in Gaza and other acts of lawlessness, from the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to the kidnapping of Maduro, have been combined with a continuing coarsening of American culture.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, the founding editor Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme Inequalities

Osita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnist

Jill Filipovic is an American author