Totally agree. And if candidates run only on "the economy to the exclusion of democracy, or freedom, or any of those other "abstract" ideas, they have no mandate to do the hard, radical work that's necessary. People need to understand that stakes and their leaders have to articulate them.
digby
Had a few (more) unkind words for the professional strategists who regurgitate the lazy, often self-serving advice that voters don’t care about democracy. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-iran...
