This November Can Be the Democratic Party's Gettysburg

On July 4, 1863, the Union Army--and a young patriot from Massachusetts named Charles Potter--saved democracy. We can do it again

Every July 4, in the damp heat of a Pennsylvania summer, H. Phelps Potter—father, husband, Eagle Scout, military veteran, former intelligence officer, and physician—used to raise the Star Spangled Banner outside our house. I will never forget him, in a sports shirt and khaki shorts, fiddling with a complex series of knots, ones that only a Boy Scout wou…