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...veteran of the election trail, Diaz found the spirit of the Reich campaign refreshing. She was working alongside young people—many of them volunteering for a politician for the first time in their lives—and older volunteers working for a candidate for the first time since their youth...
...When Reich faltered in the primary, Diaz made what she said was a difficult decision to close party ranks and work for the Democrats’ winning candidate...
...Reich was the most visibly supported candidate at Harvard during the early stages of the Democratic race, but after he finished second in the September primary, Reich supporters on campus were left to find another candidate...
...thing, O’Brien’s headquarters in South Boston is a significantly longer hike from Diaz’s Lowell House room. The Reich campaign had been based just down Mount Auburn...
This, I think, is what Robert Reich must have seen in us: the cynicism that hardens into apathy. He must have seen that what protects us from disappointment is something more poisonous than our parents’ idealism. He must have known that by refusing to have our hopes in politics dashed we have refused to hope at all. He must have known that, crouched behind the bulwark of our cynicism, we were powerless to improve the world. He must have known that we can only feel the optimism that propelled our parents if we stand up, lower our pasteboard...