Whether it was from watching The West Wing on a loop or reading every book ever written about Robert Kennedy’s 1968 campaign, I had an unrequited relationship with politics. I desperately wanted to experience a politics that felt more like a cause than a campaign. I had never felt anything resembling what I imagined that historic Kennedy campaign felt like. And I was dying to know what that was like. I could point to playing a role in this fight or that fight that had helped prevent some harm being done to people by the Bush administration, but that’s sort of like feeling good about a couple
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