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Listening to hell of presidents and recognizing that need for the charismatic figure to break the regulatory capture is one of the things that is so disturbing about the current moment-- if you look at the Dems there is nobody even remotely close to this, unless they can pull a trump and pull someone out of the celebrity pile.
This is the tragedy of Obama in my view-- he was such a figure, but in his cowardice rather than leaning in to his base of popular support and applying pressure he kowtowed to capital and pissed the opportunity away. It's the people who are able to combine the policies that are needed in the moment with the personalities to bring them to life that end up on the currency
Stephen A Smith will break the wheel of neoliberalism