Welcome to Unafraid the Blog

This marks a pivot point for Really Taking America Back, a merger, really, with the project that's taken most of my energy for months, and will until the election: the launch of UNAFRAID into the world.

UNAFRAID is a particularly powerful vehicle for much of what I have to say about Really Taking America Back. One of the first steps is to remember, despite the powerfully discouraging news around us, that we still can. Another way to say that: a foundational task is to decisively expand our notion of what's possible in politics and public life, to break out of the cynicism that shackles our efforts and hugely serves those who hold power over us today. That's the exact core of As If We Were Grownups, which you see promoted in the right-hand column.


UNAFRAID takes that same thread to a general fiction audience, posing an answer to what Boomers like me have wondered over the last 40 years: how would history have unfolded if JFK had survived Dallas and gone on to serve two full terms in the White House? The plot lets us imagine a leader who is, in his own words, unafraid of the American people.

So if unafraid is the mindset we need from both leaders and citizen/activists (that would be you and me) to Really Take America Back, and if we now have UNAFRAID the book ---excerpts from which you can easily read --- what if we make our interactive discussion UNAFRAID the Blog?

Welcome.