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LZ Granderson: For the last 20 years, there have been two Democratic parties. Kamala Harris is the author of that unity

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Julian Zelizer : For the last 20 years , a tension has defined the Democratic Party .

He says the party has been looking forward, but has been leery of forward progress.

Now, there is one, and Kamala Harris is the author of that unity, he says.

Zelizer says it's not a secret to this candidacy: Her identity is clear.

And she is. She benefits, surely, from a broadly shared yearning to unite to defeat a unique evil. But it wasn’t remotely inevitable that she could pull it off. Well, she’s doing it. If Trump isn’t scared of this, he’s dumber than I thought..