Illustration by Ben WisemanAs the Democratic Party casts about for ways to forge a durable coalition of voters ahead of the midterms, the journalist Charles Duhigg argues, in this week’s issue, that there are lessons to be taken from the successes and failures of three of the country’s most memorable four-letter activist groups: DARE, MADD, and MAGA. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (DARE) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) both got their starts in the nineteen-eighties. MADD, on the other hand, empowered local volunteers to make their own decisions about how to fight for the cause. “Mobilizing is about getting people to do a thing,” a political scientist cited by Duhigg explains. The MAGA movement has “done a fantastic job of welcoming anyone who puts on the red hat,” the anti-Trump conservative strategist Sarah Longwell explains.