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The Democrats' New Populism
The best symbol of how the party hopes to take back the Senate this year may be Montana candidate Jon Tester's flattop
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When Jon Tester was 9 years old, he lost the middle three fingers of
his left hand in a meat grinder. The only immediate impact of the
accident, he says, was that "I couldn't play the saxophone and had to
learn the trumpet, and I took a lot of crap from my schoolmates."
There was a long-term political benefit, however: Tester, who is the
Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Montana, has the most
distinctive hand wave in American politics, a thumb-and-pinkie
hook-'em-horns waggle. Indeed, Tester's...
