The onetime presidential candidate who died Tuesday was, as one scholar noted, "a walking oxymoron — a billionaire populist, an extraordinary ordinary person."
It appears to have misunderstood a blog post I wrote after my Denver bookstore was vandalized by a white supremacist group. It also just picked a bad example.
Under the City Charter, if enough citizens question an ordinance, the law is subjected to a popular vote. Citizens followed the process, yet the vote was denied.
Like Trump, she exposes an ignored side of America. In her case, it's the low-on-data, long-on-feelings spirit that simmers just below the rational surface of the contemporary liberal project.
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