That’s the magic moment that turns the fictional presidential race around: when the Clinton character speaks truth to weakness. In Klein’s cosmogony, this is something noble, something honest, something Democrats must do in order to win. Although this particular story was made up, as a description of a certain Democratic outlook it was exactly right. What workers need, this passage tells us, is to be informed that, in the face of global markets, there’s nothing anyone can do to protect them. That resistance is futile. That only individual self-improvement is capable of lifting you up—not
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