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Andrew Yang on How to Avoid 'Civil War 2.0'
Andrew Yang on How to Avoid 'Civil War 2.0'
Andrew Yang on the mayoral campaign trail on New York City on June 10, 2021.(Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
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By Bari Weiss
11.10.21 — U.S. Politics
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Andrew Yang on How to Avoid 'Civil War 2.0'

Andrew Yang is the most upbeat politician I have ever met. I am also fairly convinced he is a masochist. 

First, he decided to run for president of the United States. He lost. Then he decided to run to become mayor of New York City. He lost again. A normal person might consider a career shift.

Not Yang. In October he announced that he was leaving the Demo…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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