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Pursued by Grace: The Case for Amy Klobuchar
In what will almost certainly be called her best speech so far in her campaign, Amy Kloubchar related how her father, after years of struggling with alcoholism, was given the choice between going to jail or getting treatment. Having chosen treatment, she related, he thereafter talked about how he was pursued by grace. To me, that phrase, “pursued by grace,” is a nice encapsulation of the promise that Klobuchar holds out as a presidential candidate in these troubled and fractured times.
As of this writing, Klobuchar is coming it at third in the New Hampshire primary which is, to put it mildly, one of the biggest surprises of the night and the 2020 campaign so far. For a person who was written off by many pundits almost from the beginning, that’s not a bad showing at all, and it owes a great deal to her truly electrifying performance in the recent debate.
To my mind, both that debate and her good showing in New Hampshire reveal a truth that has been in plain sight all along but has now come into sharper focus: Amy Klobuchar is a strong candidate for president.
It’s so far been easy to overlook Klobuchar’s candidacy. Until recently, she hadn’t made a splash in the way that her senatorial colleagues have done. She didn’t have quite the larger-than-life opening that Kamala Harris did, nor did she manage to corner the…
