Tom Perez has done as well as anybody could in a job that must be a living hell, but it is time to build the coalition of the future. Whomever replaces Biden has to have a capacity not just past Biden, but past Obama. We need someone with an FDR, Lincoln level capacity for leadership, who can literally take the extraordinary expanded powers of an imperial presidency on herself and resist the temptation to use it for any reason other than altruistically. God bless Vice-President elect Harris, she just hasn't given any indication that she has that level of leadership in her. And I'm sure many of us will disagree on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but she's a dogmatic socialist ideologue. I would not trust her with even a normal presidency. But Stacey Abrams has now come within a hair's breath of flipping Georgia. Whatever 'it' is, the potential shown by Lincoln and FDR, Mandela, Ben-Gurion, Nehru, that is what Stacey Abrams is beginning to show, and any policy disagreement any of us may have along the way may turn out to be minor compared to the ability to hold a world together through the conflict of a century.
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