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Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, recently advanced an interesting proposal. He wrote that Kamala Harris “is too smart and energetic to be just the vice president, a position with few official responsibilities. I’d love to see President-elect Joe Biden give her a more important job: his de facto secretary of rural development, in charge of closing the opportunity gap, the connectivity gap, the learning gap, the start-up gap — and the anger and alienation gap — between rural America and the rest of the country.” He framed part of his idea in political terms — that Biden (and Harris) won by running up big numbers in the suburbs, where voters recoiled against President Trump. With Trump out of the way, future Democrats may not be able to count on such a big share of the suburban vote. It’s in Democrats’ political interest to show some interest in rural America in hopes of picking up some extra votes th

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