Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?

Sen. Cory Booker talks about politics in grand, even spiritual terms.

Speaking to NPR about his run for the presidency, the New Jersey Democrat used phrases like “coalitions of conscience,” “sacred honor” and “courageous empathy.”

But those hopeful ideas pose a major challenge for Booker: how to translate his aggressively optimistic view of American democracy into any sort of policy action, especially with such gaping differences between the two parties on a wide range of policy areas.

Listen to Cory Booker talk to NPR’s Morning Edition

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