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I could not bring myself to join Barack Obama's speech after he lost the New Hampshire primary in January 2008 against Hillary Clinton. That evening he delivered a speech I could half-heartedly share, against conventional wisdom, he doubled down on a campaign that sought to create what others couldn't: a political movement to pull a fresh narrative right, unprecedented in its own happening and a new kind of organizing machine. He never tried to convince people that he had experience as a statesman. His message was that he'd do it any differently …