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We need Oprah to be our Oprah—not our President

Winfrey told the audience at the Golden Globes on Jan. 7 that “a new day is on the horizon”

PRACTICALLY AS SOON AS OPRAH Winfrey left the Golden Globes stage, the notion that she would campaign for—and who knows? Maybe win!—the presidency in the next election swept across social media. When a reporter for the Los Angeles Times asked her partner, Stedman Graham, about the idea, Graham said she would “absolutely do it. It’s up to the people.” The zeal for Oprah 2020 is still catching, and understandably so: not only is

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