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America's future hangs on a Democratic Party decision. I don't recall the year. I think it was 2008, but I remember well

Louise and I meeting Ben Wickler over snacks and drinks at a small party at John Nichols' home in

Madison, Wisconsin. As we left, Louise remarked to me, that kid's going places. Keep an eye on him.

Ben has more than fulfilled her prediction, leading Wisconsin Democrats to victory after

victory. This weekend, he announced he's running for head of the DNC. This is a truly big deal.

The Democratic Party will decide who will lead it in February. Will it be a neoliberal agent of the

donor class? Another bland technocrat who tries to please everybody and offend nobody? Or a true and tested agent of the donor class, another bland technocrat who tries to please everybody and offend nobody,

or a true and tested agent of small D Democratic and middle class renewal like Ben.

It may be the most important decision Democrats have made in 50 years.

This matters because the morbidly rich are always screwing things up in their eternal quest for more, more, more wealth and power.

And they're doing it to our country right now in a way that may well become irreversible if the Democrats make the wrong choice in February.

It could, in other words, spell the end of the American experiment in democratic governance.

This is a life and death moment in history.

In actual historical fact, those wielding great wealth have been responsible for the failure or near failure

of pretty much every republic since the days of ancient Greece and Rome.

In modern times, they provoked the American Revolution,

the French Revolution, the American Civil War, the Russian Revolution,

and the downfall of dozens of smaller, once-democratic or partially democratic states

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