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In 2008, President Obama and his team made a huge mistake by demobilizing the movement-like swell of volunteers who had animated his campaign. He shouldn’t make the same mistake twice:

President Obama was indeed a transformational candidate. He now has a second chance at being a transformational political leader, one who runs toward and embraces the messy possibilities of populism and year-round grass-roots engagement or simply continues to try and push away and repress such demanding forms of democracy.

Read the full essay here.

Class warfare?  Bring it on!!

My latest op-ed for the Washington Post.  Please use the social media links on the Washington Post page to spread this around.  Thanks!!

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I have an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor about lessons that the (supposed) Organizer-in-Chief can learn from teachers organizing in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

http://bit.ly/fMP25v

Here’s an excerpt:

In a 1995 interview, Obama said, “What if a politician were to see his job as that of an organizer, as part teacher and part advocate…?” Yes, what if a politician were not to yield to the lowest common denominator in politics but, instead, organize the American people toward a bold and unyielding vision of a better future for everyone. Yes, Mr. President, what if?

I hope you’ll read it, RT it, Facebook it, print it out and attach it to a pigeon, etc.

http://bit.ly/fMP25v

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