The Biggest Tent

To defeat autocracy in America, we need as many different people campaigning in as many different places as possible

In the spring of 2024, I went to one of the first meetings of what would become the succesful “Spanberger for Governor” campaign. I wrote about it in the Atlantic:

Under a clear blue sky, on a warm spring day, several dozen Virginians gathered in a suburban backyard near Richmond to plot the future of the Democratic Party. Not that this was what they sa…