By Larry Kleinman “ Hasta La Victoria”—until victory!—has long struck me as a valiant but incomplete slogan. We gird and motivate ourselves to press on to the breakthrough…and then what? Even as we savor a hard-won triumph, say in the electoral arena, our understanding of history and our gut feelings tell us that a whole new—and different—stage awaits us: the struggles of governing. Simply put, governing gives us the means to actually institute the change we advocate. Naturally, we hope and intend that such changes will endure. Therefore, we must also prepare to defend them against likely, if not inevitable backlash, even as we expand and deepen the changes so that they are truly