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Va. Candidate Dodges Photos With DSA Members

Empathy is being able to understand someone’s troubles because you have experienced something similar.

I have to confess that though we used to be able to just debate our disagreements over approaches to solving problems, once Virginia congressional candidate Tom Perriello became an agent of his party, the times that we spoke, he sadly only seemed interested in reciting the party talking points, especially after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016.

Tom is in a pickle politically, and I feel for him because I went through a similar thing back in 2017. Ironically, the last time the two of us spoke.

As July turned to August and the end of the race for the 5th Congressional District’s Democrat nomination drew near, Perriello was attending an event with postal workers in Charlottesville to promote mail-in voting (a very ironic thing that I will return to later) hosted by Emily Yen, a previous co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.

There was speechifying and cheering, and then it was time for the........

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