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Evidence over the last seven years supports the assertion that entitlements work well only when those who are entitled are also empowered

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The evolution of Indian society post-pandemic has been analysed by many authors over the last several decades. Many of them have also expressed concerns regarding several social ills that have plagued our society.

In 2013, during a discussion, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen talked about the problem of open defecation. Fast forward to 2021 and the problem has been largely resolved. The same discussion also talked about lack of electricity or modern cooking fuel each of which has been addressed since 2014.

These achievements are not small as they are ensuring a minimum standard of living for all where necessities which were deemed as for the urban elites are now reaching even the remotest of villages.

While distributive justice has been a feature of our public policy, there is also a silent push towards a more progressive legislative agenda. This has been supported by the judiciary with its decision to strike down Section 377 in what was a historic judgment.

The legislative agenda has indeed been progressive given its focus in strengthening the rights of various stakeholders. Let us begin with the banning of triple talaq, a practice which was prevalent across the country even though most Islamic countries had banned the same. By overturning the Shah Bano judgment, the legislative aided by the executive effectively denied a proper procedural divorce to Muslim women in India.

There was a demand by several stakeholders to correct this historic injustice and eventually, a law banning the practice was passed by both the houses of Parliament.

Another progressive legislation is the 2020 amendment to the 1971 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act. The amendment raises the upper limit of MTP from 20 to 24 weeks for women, including rape survivors, minors victims of incest, etc. Moreover, now any woman or her partner can medically terminate a pregnancy, which is a departure from the erstwhile law with the provision only for a married woman or her husband. The amendments in many ways are forward looking as they address issues such as failure of contraceptives, issues regarding maternal mortality, and also ensure that women dont need to seek any permission from courts in order to terminate a pregnancy.

The progressive drift is not just with regards to the legislative or the judicial agenda, but is also very much a part of the executive branch in India. Menstruation, a topic that was a taboo and often avoided, was mentioned by no less than the prime minister himself in one of his Independence Day speeches. The speech was geared towards ensuring greater acceptance of a natural biological phenomenon and spreading greater awareness regarding hygienic practices.

As a matter of fact, the progressive outlook is not just restricted to social issues but is also manifested in the economic policy decisions of the government. Take, for example, Jan-Dhan Yojana which is the worlds largest financial inclusion programme till date. Jan-Dhan enabled what is the worlds largest accidental insurance programme and the largest voluntary pension programme. That it was subsequently combined with Direct Benefit Transfers for subsidy and income support further makes it an enabler of what is the worlds largest poverty alleviation or subsidy support mechanism. The government has already made gains of Rs 2.22 lakh crore by reducing leakages due to implementation of the DBT.

The worlds largest health insurance programme Ayushman Bharat is also another example of progressive policy interventions. The programme allows patients to pick a public or a private healthcare facility and provides them with insurance cover up to Rs 5 lakh for in-patient treatment. Then there is the worlds biggest affordable housing programme the PM Awas Yojana under which over 2 crore houses have already been constructed and handed over to beneficiaries.

A lot of these interventions find their parallels with the progressive discussion on affordable housing in key urban metropolises in advanced economies. Similarly, the liberal discourse on expansion of public healthcare insurance essentially would lead to something of the form of Ayushman Bharat in their respective country.

Despite such interesting parallels, many who champion such progressive causes have failed to acknowledge the developments in India since 2014. Their reluctance to acknowledge, however, does not change the fact that for the first time more than 40 percent of Indian households in rural areas have received a tapped water connection or that women now spend less time gathering wood to cook food thanks to the Ujjwala scheme.

Each of these interventions have meant real tangible empowerment of the forgotten, more so for women, which partly also explains their increased participation in the political process.

The progressive drift in Indias social discourse also gives us much food for thought as far as the debate on entitlements versus empowerments is concerned. Evidence over the last seven years supports the assertion that entitlements work well only when those who are entitled are also empowered. Indias experience, therefore, provides a good template for many other less developed countries that are looking for good policy interventions to aid their development.

Karan Bhasin is a New York-based economist. Somya Luthra is a student of law. Views expressed are personal.

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Dont let the fact that New York Citys Mayor-elect Eric Adams is an outspoken vegan fool you.

The Brooklyn native and former NYPD captain has cultivated a working-class coalition more likely to prefer barbecues instead of the kale smoothies he often champions.

New York, like many cities, is facing serious challenges, from rising crime to stressed businesses and schools. Its new mayor sees a path forward in building an inclusive and broad coalition and an ethos thats more pragmatic than ideological.

After he takes office Jan. 1, Mr. Adams will offer a challenge to the ascendant progressive wing of the Democratic Party, bringing a personal style of governance more pragmatic than ideological.

Labeling himself a practical progressive, Mayor-elect Adams won with a platform that emphasized public safety, decrying Democratic efforts to defund the police. He proclaimed that New York will no longer be anti-business. And as he fills out his administration, hes eschewed Ivy League degrees for what he calls emotional intelligence.

Ramon Tallaj, a member of the Adams transition team and founder of SOMOS Community Care, says the focus will be on the larger challenges the city is facing.

Before, when people from the Dominican Republic would tell him they got a visa, it meant, Im going to New York! says Dr. Tallaj. Now I say, Oh, where are you going? To Austin, to Miami.

I believe we have to go on that path to be sure that New York continues being the capital of the world. And I believe the mayor has his heart in doing so.

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Dont let the fact that New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams is an outspoken vegan fool you.

Make no mistake, after being diagnosed with diabetes, Mayor-elect Adams embraced a plant-based diet and talks, often, about losing 35 pounds and seeing his health improve. The former state senator and then-Brooklyn borough president has become something of a public health evangelist, promoting a vegan lifestyle.

At the same time, New York Citys incoming mayor, a Brooklyn native and former captain in the New York Police Department, has cultivated a working-class coalition more likely to prefer barbecues and cream in their coffee instead of the kale smoothies he often champions.

New York, like many cities, is facing serious challenges, from rising crime to stressed businesses and schools. Its new mayor sees a path forward in building an inclusive and broad coalition and an ethos thats more pragmatic than ideological.

After hes sworn into office on Jan. 1, Mr. Adams, who will become the second Black mayor in the history of the nations largest city, will in many ways offer a challenge to the ascendant progressive wing of the Democratic Party, bringing a personal style and vision of governance more pragmatic than ideological, observers say.

Labeling himself a practical progressive, Mayor-elect Adams won a crowded primary with a pragmatic platform that emphasized public safety, decrying Democratic efforts to defund the police. He proclaimed during the campaign that New York will no longer be anti-business. And as he fills out his administration, hes been less impressed with Ivy League degrees and establishment credentials than he has been with what he calls emotional intelligence.

He is inclusive; he is pragmatic. It doesnt matter the party; it doesnt matter the race, the domestic group, or the power of money hes not going to be antagonizing or polarizing, says Ramon Tallaj, a member of the mayor-elects transition team and founder and chairman of SOMOS Community Care, a nonprofit health network that serves Medicaid and Medicare recipients.

Over eight years ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio vaulted unexpectedly into the national spotlight, a relative unknown with what many considered radical progressive views after 20 years of the tough-on-crime and pro-business administrations of Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. Mr. de Blasio effectively described New York as a tale of two cities, promising to both rein in the citys yawning wealth disparities and radically reform the NYPD at the height of the stop-and-frisk era. After taking office, his first priority focused on animal rights, and he spent a significant amount of political capital trying to ban the citys horse-drawn carriages in Central Park an effort that famously flopped.

In the course of constructing his administration, de Blasio made it more representative demographically, and moved it to the left ideologically, says Ken Sherrill, professor emeritus of political science at Hunter College in Manhattan. But its not clear that he addressed many of the everyday concerns of people living in the outer boroughs and I say that as a kid who was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn.

Professor Sherrill also points out the deep cultural differences between the former officer born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn and Mayor de Blasio, whose administration, he says, was in many ways made up of highly educated ideas people who frequent progressive study groups.

What progressive people who call themselves progressive dont understand is that lots of people who are excluded from society in the outer boroughs dont hold views that coincide with progressive ideology, Professor Sherrill says. And this may be a shock to some people on the left.

Incoming New York Mayor Eric Adams appointed Keechant Sewell, show in Queens on Dec. 15, 2021, as the first Black female NYPD commissioner.

One of Mr. Adams first appointments was to name Keechant Sewell, chief of detectives in Nassau County, as the first Black woman to head the NYPD. And Mr. Adams has said he wants to bring more everyday New Yorkers into the police department, promoting those in what he calls the minor leagues of law enforcement, including hospital police, homeless service police, school safety officers, over 70% of whom are people of color and women.

Even though Mr. Adams has defended certain measures of qualified immunity and has spoke out forcefully against the defund the police movement, he has nevertheless been committed to reforming police departments.

When he was 15, he and his brother were arrested and then assaulted by a New York police officer. The experience left him shaken and bitter, but the pastor at his church encouraged him and other young Black men to join the police department and work for change from within. In 1984, Mr. Adams graduated second in his class at the Police Academy.

Indeed, over the course of his 22-year career as a New York police officer, Mr. Adams became a leader in efforts to change the NYPD from within, co-founding the advocacy group100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, which focuses on police brutality and racial profiling.

But hes also focused on issues surrounding Black violence and high rates of homicide in certain communities.

Back then, when it was not a slogan painted on the streets, I was talking about Black Lives Matter, Mr. Adams said in an interview in The Atlantic. You cant say Black lives matter and have outrage when a police officer shoots someone ... but ignore shootings in our city the same day when 15 people are shot.

In keeping with his emphasis on emotional intelligence over establishment credentials, the mayor-elect also tapped New York educator David Banks, who heads a network of all-boys schools that focus on students of color, to be chancellor of the nations largest school system. Mr. Banks founded the unionized Eagle Academy for Young Men in order to serve Black and Latino boys who often struggled in school, even as teachers many of them white women struggled to help them.

In some ways, the mayor-elects choices represent a return to some of the emphasis in the Bloomberg administration, says Amy Zimmer, editor-in-chief of ChalkBeat, a nonprofit news organization that covers education issues across the country.

Both Mr. Adams and Mr. Banks have expressed support for charter schools in stark contrast to the de Blasio administration, which imposed caps on the number of such nonunion schools. Whether they make a push in Albany to lift the charter cap remains to beseen," says Ms. Zimmer, noting a change in leadership in the state legislature.

But Adams has talked about replicating excellent schools, and we just saw that Bloomberg Philanthropies isinvesting $750 million over the next five years to expand charter schools across the nation, including in New York City, she says.

But the recent spike in crime and the citys ongoing economic crisis remain New Yorks most pressing problems, says Dan Biederman, president of Biederman Redevelopment Ventures Corp. in the city.

Mayor Adams challenge is to turn that around, says Mr. Biederman, citing the changed views of the electorate that brought him to power. So far, hes saying all the right things on this issue.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. Biederman helped spark the revitalization of areas near Times Square, then a red-light district of sex shops and drug sales, creating organizations such as Bryant Park Corporation and34th Street Partnership to form public and private partnerships that helped reshape these blighted areas into tourist destinations that brought billions to the city.

Hes still appalled at how progressive politicians and activists helped scuttle Amazons plans to possibly build its global headquarters in Queens, a move that would have brought thousands of jobs to the borough. Mr. Biederman says that one of Mayor-elect Adams biggest challenges will be to influence City Council members and state legislators to support his agenda, even as more progressives join their ranks.

Companies like Amazon should be welcomed with open arms by his administration, he says. Despite being rejected for an HQ by legislators, theyve stuck around in a less prominent way and have become a great force for good in this city.

Like former Mayor Bloomberg, a former smoker who was also something of a health zealot, banning trans fats and famously failing to ban the sale of big gulp-sized sodas, Mayor-elect Adams has promised to revamp city-funded food programs. He wants to end processed school lunches, ban sugary drinks in public hospitals and city jails, and extol the benefits of plant-based eating.

Dr. Tallaj, whose network serves the poorest of New Yorkers and has been on the front lines of the pandemic, has been helping shape the health policies of the incoming administration. But he also sees the larger challenges the city is facing.

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I was just telling the [transition] group today, he says. In my country, Dominican Republic, when somebody says ... I got a visa! it means, Im going to New York!

Now I say, Oh, where are you going? To Austin, to Miami, Dr. Tallaj continues. I believe we have to go on that path to be sure that New York continues being the capital of the world. And I believe the mayor has his heart in doing so.

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Sen. Joe Manchin's(D-W.Va.)defection from the Democrats' big spending bill has produced a lot of talk about whether states like West Virginia should have this much power in our constitutional structure in the first place. Complaints about the influence accorded to smaller states are no longer limited to progressive academics. They'vegone mainstream.

But the argument that institutions like the Senate (balanced by the House), the Electoral College, and federalism among states with populations of vastly different size are anachronistic is wrong. Our polarized country needs more space for team red and blue to get away from each other, not less. Allowing one to impose its will on the other by the smallest margins will only make our divisions more bitter.

To be sure, much has changed since the Constitution was originally ratified. But the valuein how the House and Senate were structured hasnot. Wyoming and West Virginia residents would no more consent to be in a political union where everything was decided by California and New York than New Englanders and Southerners would strike the same deal at the founding.

"One person, one vote" is an important principle. But so is the ability to escape the tyrannies of majority rule, something our system has always tried to balance, however imperfectly. If the issue was gay marriage circa 2004, liberals would see this fact as clearly as conservatives do now. The contempt members of each political tribe feel for the residents of states dominated by the other is evident.

And for all the talk by big-d Democrats about small-d democracy, everything liberals have ever accomplished, from the New Deal to ObamaCare, they have achieved through the existing constitutional system. They are failing to achieve more now because they have less popular support than they did when those programs passed. Yes, President Biden won 81 million votes and the barest 51 percent majority, not the landslides of Presidents FDR or LBJ, much less Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon. Even Senate rules like the filibuster require consensus, which our existing political moment surely lacks.

Greater ability to retreat to red and blue enclaves, voting with one's feet, could do more to lower the temperature on our country's politics than letting 51-50 Senates pass "transformational" legislation, then lose the next election. The Founding Fathers, for all their faults, understood this better than Bette Midler does.

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Recognition, Redirection, and Renewal is the answer. Whats the question? Here it is: What should appear in a progressive race narrative?

Heres the backstory question. Why is it that America, like a family car stuck in a Minnesota snow, only spins its wheels on matters of race? Here is my answer. Because of the absence of a progressive race narrativeor worldviewwith the traction that could move the society forward toward a healthy democracy?[1]

This post is the first of a Patheos series, A Progressive Race Narrative, within a larger series on public theology within a still larger series dedicated to Progressive Christianity. This includes an interview with African Public Theologian Mwaambi Gideon Mbi and Asian public theologian Paul S. Chung as well as prominent American public theologian Katie Day. Now, lets turn to the challenge of constructing a progressive race narrative that will give us hope.

I recommend we construct a progressive race narrative out of existing materialsthat is, out of selected values already alive in our culture. I recommend we lift up a vision of the near, medium, and long range futures.Discourse clarification and worldview construction are in the futures business.

First, in the near future we lay a foundation of recognition. This recognition revises Americas story to include an objective and realistic account of the role racial injustice has played in the course of events. It also includes confession of the sins perpetrated by white supremacism.

Second, for the medium range future, we redirect institutional policies to consciously embrace racial diversity, even cultural diversity. Affirmative Action programs in recent decades were largely effective, despite pockets of resentment. For the time being, affirmative policies could help redress imbalances that have led to institutional racism in mortgage finance, law enforcement, imprisonment, and corporate board rooms.

Third, renewal for the long range future is predicated on a colorblind vision of a single universal humanum. Yes, Im aware that the term, colorblind, is controversial. Even so, nothing less than colorblindness is requisite for reconciliation, justice, and filial love.

This long range vision, like a rainbow, should include all colors. Its a mistake to continually formulate the race question in binary fashion as either white versus black or white versus non-white. The American family includes adoptees from every clime and continent.

If we are to keep our democracy from dying of racial cancer only to be trumped by totalitarianism, a progressive race theory becomes as urgent as emergency surgery. (Heart photo from Keith Giles Patheos column where a black American, Kyle Butler writes, Racism: My Answer To It.)

Might the public theologian provide emergency room therapy? The public theologian has high motivation drawn from two sources. One is scripture. St. Paul in Galatians 3:28: There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Can such a biblical mandate be translated into a cultural vision?

The second source for the public theologian is the traditional triad of confession, repentance, and reconciliation. Might we translate this triad for the wider public as recognition, redirection, and renewal? Recognition plus repentance are prerequisite to redirection and healthy renewal.

In recent posts I have described public theology as conceived in the church, critically honed in the academy, and meshed with the world for the sake of the world. Might the progressive Christian contribute to an inclusive progressive race narrative that inspires unity rather than division?

The frenzied question of race is one of the most urgent on the public theologians agenda. In our series on public theology, we have tried to clarify the confusion over Critical Race Theory in contemporary discourse. Weve appealed to Gods identification with us in the incarnation as a divine conferral of dignity on each of us, regardless of race.

Turning from the wider public back to the church for a moment, its distressing to find the same divisiveness within the churches that are fracturing the wider society. Worse. We find the same competing ideologies generated in the public sphere ripping apart the communal fabric within the church sphere.

Evangelical theologian Roger Olson throws up his hands.I find the condition of Christian ethics absolutely appalling and sickening. It lacks any center, anything like doctrinal orthodoxy. Highly respected, allegedly devout Christian ethicists disagree radically with each other over questions such as war, capital punishment, poverty, abortion, biomedical ethics, and just about everything where there should be some kind of at least rough consensus. (Art: Jesus and the Children by John Lautermilch)

Progressives have contributed to this disintegration by judging as immoral other Christian communions. Fundamentalists and some evangelicals have not done any better, constantly complaining that liberal Protestants and Roman Catholics are no longer Christian. What St. Paul called party spirit continues to dismember the one Body of Christ.

What this means is that a new Progressive Race Narrative for the wider public should look for healing divisiveness within the plurality of Christian communions in the process. Healing by leading.

For the discussion that follows in Part 2, I will prosecute discourse clarification of the narratives touted by the scolders [2] and the deniers. These two narratives dominate the self-interpretations of todays Americans. Like piranha fish in a frenzy, the scolders and deniers eat up the minority narratives of the Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Should the public theologian join the frenzy? Yes.

[1] The need for such a progressive narrative has been suggested by Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School. Feldman suggested this when appearing on the Fareed Zakaria television show, 12/26/2021.

Ted Peters is a Lutheran pastor and emeritus seminary professor. His one volume systematic theology is now in its 3rd edition, GodThe Worlds Future (Fortress 2015). He has undertaken a thorough examination of the sin-and-grace dialectic in two works, Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society (Eerdmans 1994) and Sin Boldly! (Fortress 2015). Watch for his forthcoming, The Voice of Public Christian Theology (ATF 2022). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com.

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Its often said that Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaMissed paperwork deadline delaying Biden nomination for FDA: report Poll: Democracy is under attack, and more violence may be the future No time for the timid: The dual threats of progressives and Trump MOREs principal legacy was Donald TrumpDonald TrumpFive reasons for Biden, GOP to be thankful this season Giving thanks for Thanksgiving itself Immigration provision in Democrats' reconciliation bill makes no sense MORE. Soon, Joe BidenJoe BidenUS lawmakers arrive in Taiwan to meet with local officials Biden meets with Coast Guard on Thanksgiving Five reasons for Biden, GOP to be thankful this season MOREs main legacy also may be Trump. In both cases, Trump could be seen as a broad-based, middle-class populist reaction to massive overreach by progressives, their powerful supporters in the media and tech communities, and a firmly entrenched, permanent bureaucracy.

Modern politics in the superpower states whether in the United States, China or Russia has become a crucible of hardball, winner-take-all, merciless strategies and tactics, utilizing every vehicle available to prevail. In the American model, political leaders, successfully emerging from that crucible and equipped to govern, must be prepared to fully co-opt the progressive left or be strong enough to resist it, as well as prepared to resist the ill-defined, but highly effective, political magnetism of Trump. The far left-leaning Democratic Party leadership in the House and Senate has been effective in aligning with and partially co-opting the radical progressives. Trump has been very effective at building a populist movement to confront and resist both progressives and the permanent bureaucracy.

Neither radical path represents good governance or a sustainable long-term direction for America. They are highly divisive. Many Americans understand that, and it leaves a centrist path open to any moderate Democrats, Republicans or independents with the political skills, personal strength and resources to resist the radical left, the media, the entrenched bureaucracy and Trump.

Many Americans feel, with some justification, that liberal Democrats appear to have fully corrupted the media and perhaps even weaponized parts of the federal justice, national security and, recently, health agencies as active arms of their political agenda. The result has begun to feel to a large portion of the country like increased authoritarianism and radical government.

But, the left has made the deadly error of making its plans and tactics increasingly obvious. The trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and the $1.75 trillion social spending bill (some estimate its real price at closer to $4 trillion) most likely will represent a disastrous $5 trillion in new spending. When combined with the destruction of Americas energy independence and renewed allowance for states and local governments to subsidize increased spending through higher federal income tax deductions, the spending will lead to skyrocketing inflation, higher taxes and interest rates, a slowing economy, higher unemployment and increased misery among the middle class and the poor precisely the opposite of what is being claimed by the sponsors.

They will have weakened the economy, destroyed the jobs-creating machinery, weakened national security, and shown their authoritarian fists in implementing their programs. They have flooded the country with illegal border crossers, allowed an explosion of crime and drug deaths, and confronted parents over how to raise and teach their children. They have allowed cities to be trashed and burned and ordinary citizens of all races to be terrorized, beaten and killed.

Re-enter Trump. He has shown himself to be unique among moderate and right-leaning leaders in having the populist charisma, personal resources and single-minded determination to resist, confront and occasionally defeat the progressive left and the entrenched bureaucracy. But his highly-flawed style and personal behavior make him distasteful to moderates, many conservatives and others favoring decorum, graciousness, orderly process and personal consideration from Americas leaders. He has treated opponents, and often his own staff, with relentless derision and disrespect.

While not governing as a racist, Trump certainly seemed to use racist dog whistles to secure the 2016 Republican nomination and occasionally as president. He had a successful economic program thanks to his embrace of Paul Ryans tax reforms, his dogged trade representatives, and former Secretary of State Mike PompeoMike PompeoNo time for the timid: The dual threats of progressives and Trump Psaki: Sexism contributes to some criticism of Harris Mnuchin, Pompeo mulled plan to remove Trump after Jan. 6: book MORE's diplomacy little of which he recognizes. Trump governed as a moderate with the lowest unemployment rates for Blacks, Hispanics and women in history, while increasing real wages across the board. Carbon emissions were some of the lowest in a decade.

Trumps firm, but restrained, foreign policy kept America out of new shooting wars, and prevented increased aggression from Russia, China, North Korea or Iran. He created effective peace treaties in the Middle East. But many moderates feel he was totally self-absorbed and obnoxious while he accomplished all of this and have trouble stomaching another, possibly inevitable, round of Trump in the White House.

Nonetheless, the apparent incompetence and radical progressive direction of the Biden administration is bleeding reluctant moderates and independents toward Trump as the lesser of two evils. In short, Biden and the radical left are creating a massive political vacuum in America, which Trump will fill unless a very strong alternative surfaces.

This is no time for the timid. Trump has become a political colossus and he must be confronted by another charismatic leader with personal determination, huge political and management skills, an effective populist message, and personal access to vast resources to confront powerful political blocs, most of the media, and the permanent bureaucracy. It must be a populist leader with the personal energy to barnstorm America the oxymoron extreme-moderate with the courage, skill and resources to confront both Trump and the progressives.

Biden has lost his magic beans. The stalk is starting to grow. The giant is coming. Who knows Jack (or Jacqueline)? Tell them to bring a sharp ax.

Grady Means is a writer (GradyMeans.com) and former corporate strategy consultant. He served in the White House as a policy assistant to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Follow him on Twitter @gradymeans1.

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