In the 1972 movie “The Candidate,” Robert Redford plays Bill McKay, a public interest lawyer and longshot Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator from California. At one level, the widely praised movie explores the incompatibility between a candidate’s ideals and winning political office, but at another — Democrats, especially left-leaning ones, take notice — it’s about what it…
What Democrats can learn from Robert Redford’s ‘The Candidate’

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