At a VT coffee shop last week, I ran into two reporters, which I do a lot. So, inevitably, the chatter turned to US Senator Bernie Sanders. Knowing that Sanders, as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, was about to turn out a multi-TRILLION dollar budget proposal to remake the country’s economy, I thought this might be a story.

Not in a self-righteous way - although we can sometimes be that - but in a way that is attractive to people of all kinds.

We walked into a new restaurant in Middlesex, VT this holiday weekend and came face to face with Vermont - and American - history.

Quick. Name the most consequential, provocative person in government today. Bernie Sanders? AOC? Biden? White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain? The FBI or CIA Directors?

Now try Lina Khan.

Who?

Berkeley Springs, W. Va. —- On a Saturday afternoon in this small town, the tribal differences between us are on vivid display.