Warren confronts ghost of Howard Dean

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11. Again, we really cannot draw many lessons from past campaigns

Major difference - "social media," twitters, insta-something, etc.

"Social media" is built on sensationalism, on "revolutionary" ideas. On freebies rather than the ho-hum boring ideas of infrastructure, of bipartisan decisions.

And on rallies that talk about how bad things are, about the 'forgotten" Americans even though I don't think that many of these "forgotten" attend rallies.

How I miss Reagan's "the shining city on the hill." I think that the ideal candidate is the one who sees the good in this country, who can see the potential, the promises, the ability and the will to do better, to right the wrongs.

For the ones who think that this country is rotten to the core - ask all the masses, yes, the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" currently on the Southern border, in refugees camps around the world, in detention centers in China and in Myanmar.