Hopefully, with increasing distance, we can start to fully appreciate how Bill Clinton attempted (and mostly succeeded) in reshaping the Democratic party for generations.
Clinton deserves enormous credit for running for President not merely on the basis of biography (Presidential primaries now feel mostly like tests of strength between cults of personality) but also on a coherent vision of how he wanted his party and his country to look and act in the years ahead.
Though I frequently disagree with him, he remains, to me, the great tragic figure of our generation. What might have been.
