Incumbents have been trounced worldwide in this global year of elections, Fareed writes in his latest Washington Post column, but Kamala Harris had a chance to buck that trend. The US economy is faring better than many others, and Donald Trump had monumental weaknesses as a candidate.Democrats made three mistakes, Fareed writes. One was to not take immigration and illegal border crossings more seriously. The flurry of criminal cases against Trump felt like a pile-on. The final mistake, Fareed writes, was broader: allowing identity politics to dominate.“The problem is much deeper than simply one about nouns and pronouns,” Fareed writes. “The entire focus on identity has morphed into something deeply illiberal—judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. Similarly, university speech codes and cancel culture have become ways that the left censored or restricted that most cherished of liberal ideas, freedom of speech. One simple way to think about the lessons of this election is that liberals cannot achieve liberal goals—however virtuous—by illiberal means.”