The Description:
Every week, I put out an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I ran for Congress, as the Democratic nominee, in 2012. This is a reading of my piece for this week, which will be appearing in the papers this coming weekend.
Most of my op/eds attempt in some way to challenge the conservative majority in the district. I got to know -- and deeply appreciate -- many of the conservatives of the Shenandoah Valley when I did talk radio for a decade (1992-2002).
I keep hoping that they will come back to "the better angels of their nature," which I got to see before today's Republican Party brought out some other, less worthy part of them.
I don't claim that I've had an impact: maybe yes, maybe no. In the world of today's Republican Party, no one who strays from the orthodoxy wants anyone to know about it.
But I continue to put out these challenging op/eds week after week, as an act of faith.
This is the latest of those efforts.
The questions I ask here are:
1) Does it matter if your leader cares about your well-being?
2) How do you interpret the really off-the-wall things that Trump has been saying lately? And
3) How many Republicans will become part of this remarkable tsunami that has lately bolstered the hope that American Democracy will survive the upcoming election?