Are there limits, even in Mississippi, even in 2019, to the amount of budget-cutting, corporate tax breaks, and dismayingly poor social services that voters are willing to tolerate?
A rally in Pittsburgh, on Monday, was comfortably familiar terrain for Biden, who showed his ability to make a piercing emotional connection with his target audience.
The work at the S.P.L.C. could be meaningful and gratifying. But it was hard, for many of us there, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam.