And I think now that John's actually going to announce and get out there in the full campaign mode, the burden on him is to, kind of, give the press a comeback narrative by sharpening his message and positioning himself - where he's really all has been his career, which is a guy who wants to change the way things are done in Washington.
In other words, here is a progressive politician who can translate a progressive message and a liberal narrative of What Went Wrong into language the mainstream can understand.
In spite of some of her novels being banned at the time by South Africa's white-only government, the Nobel laureate insists that any author who tries to push a message on a reader ahead of narrative is in danger at best of producing bad writing, and at worst of lapsing into propaganda.