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        Democrats Don't Need a Coach, They Need a Teacher
      
                    The choice to campaign as "Coach" Walz may be as tactically bankrupt as it is morally so: if Americans truly want an American football coach, isn’t that the "you're fired" persona Trump already embodies?
                          
                      Nathan Kalman-Lamb and                       Derek Silva