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Please note Elizabeth Warren, over 70, remains a source of such new thinking so I consider her essential as I do mainstream political leaders like Kamala Harris. Where does the righteous rage go? The key is to identify the changes you want and work both inside and outside of the system to produce them. Most recently, just now, I was reading [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge.

I guess the main point is finding sources of philosophical and spiritual grounding and insight. Lincoln letting off the leaders of the Confederacy was a mistake.

Ford pardoning Nixon. Electing Ronald Reagan. Allowing the right to co-opt the courts and redraw legislative districts. Failing to play hardball when they did. Electing Trump, of course, was just catastrophic. Our society and system are designed to adapt. What is more, greater diversity has always benefited us… as will the gradually and long overdue end of the patriarchy. Technological progress has also benefited us throughout time, and I believe we will live longer, richer lives as a result of it.

He will have to focus for his first couple of years on recovery, both economically and on the literal health of the nation. But from then on, we have much work to do. We require a moment of sweeping transformation, updating institutions, focusing on social justice, creating the safety nets we lack.

For example, we have learned the national security and economic costs of having the only health care system in the developed world that does not protect every citizen. Our infrastructure is in shambles. Our schools need to be rethought and revitalized. The damage Trump has done to our regulatory structure, our environment, our legal system, and our international standing must be reversed.