Virginia Heffernan: Reagan killed Mondale-style good government. Can Biden revive it?
The first presidential campaign I volunteered for was Walter Mondale’s, in the summer of 1984. I was short of voting age, but standing outside an old New England Grange hall, handing out Mondale-Ferraro brochures, I understood the intoxication of political idealism. One commitment in the pamphlets was especially snappy: “Making the rich pay their fair share of taxes like everybody else.”
Sick burn. Take that, Reagan juggernaut.
When Mondale, who died Monday at 93, lost resoundingly that November, I also understood crushing defeat. The one good
