Dan Kaufman writes about Zach Shrewsbury, who is running for the U.S. Senate, and whether a progressive campaign can break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics.
Three months earlier, Shrewsbury had announced a bid for the U.S. Senate while standing in front of the Jefferson County courthouse, in Charles Town. This was where John Brown, the Kansas abolitionist, had been sentenced to death for his raid on Harpers Ferry. “Why am I honoring John Brown?” Shrewsbury asked a few dozen supporters. “We need a leader who will not waver in the face of these powers that keep the boot on our neck.
His tour took him to Japan, Malaysia, and South Korea, where he helped train local militaries. “I saw how other people were living, how there’s really no difference in all of us across the world, from Malaysia to West Virginia,” he said. “People are experiencing poverty across the board.” We stopped by his old high school, which he recalled visiting on a recruiting trip shortly after joining the Marines. “My history teacher begged me to enlist as many kids as I could,” Shrewsbury told me.
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