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.
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