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Running mates from the past prove the need for a new politics of the future

THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT TIM KAINE AND Mike Pence is that they represent parties that no longer exist. Kaine is a moderate Democrat in a party hijacked by the Bernie Sanders left. Pence is an old-fashioned conservative in a party hijacked by Donald Trump populism. Left to their own devices, they might have engaged in the civilized, well-informed, stultifying arguments that we’ve been seeing for years. But both were forced to focus most

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