We don't need another hero, but perhaps the Democrats do.

I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, and this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.

Gentlemen, there was a column that I, that caught my attention in the New York Times under the headline.

The activist left doesn't want a hero, but does it need one? But does it need one? And the columnist was

basically making the case that the progressives are so all over the place and disorganized and treasure

that aspect of their movements, their various movements, and

rebel against the notion that they should anoint somebody as their spokesperson or their leader.

They give an example of when Congressman John Lewis went to speak at Atlanta years ago.

You remember Occupy Wall Street? Well, there was some sort of

rally regarding that years ago. And John Lewis showed up. And the Democratic group that was

running the local protest area there refused to let him speak. And then finally compromised and said that he could speak at the end of the day,

but he couldn't just show up just because he was famous and a congressman and speak in front of

this group of people. And Lewis just left and later told people that he wasn't offended,

that he didn't feel like they kicked him out. He was offered an

opportunity to speak, but he just didn't avail himself of it. And that was just an illustration,

Stephen Green, of this kind of, this utopian idea that somehow a movement just bubbles up from

the people and takes the world by storm, and nobody needs to lead that thing.

But it made me think on a broader basis about how things have gone in recent years

and how infrequently we have strong leaders behind solid ideas who are really seen as

advancing the movement. I mean, in the civil rights movement,

there were several clear people who were, you know, the figureheads, who were making the

important statements, who were going to the places, making the speeches. And yet, I wondered

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