Democrats continue to pay the price for the “Democratic Drought”, the absence of new faces for the party during the Obama years, either because existing new faces went down to defeat in the disastrous elections of 2010 and 2014 and never re-emerged or simply never appeared at all, leaving us with fuddie-duddies like Hillary, Bernie, and, most spectacularly, Joe, all of whom have histories that are unintelligible to young sprats whose idea of “ancient” history is anything prior to the iPhone 8. How do you explain James Eastland to voters who can’t remember anyone older than Katy Perry, who I hear is a grandmother now?
The answer is you can’t, but the bigger question is, why would you want to? I do remember James Eastland, and he was, as people are describing him, quite possibly the biggest racist in the Senate. Why would Uncle Joe start reminiscing about this thug? Maybe his “point” was “I could work with the biggest jerk in the Senate”, but why revive issues that no one who isn’t 76 could understand/remember, particularly when half of the people who can remember—a whole 3% of the population—disagree with what you did?
Sorry, geezers, but we gotta have a younger face. And that includes you, too, Lizzie. I know that, technically, you are a new face, but not really. What’s wrong with Cory Booker? He’s young, and because he’s black the feminists can’t go into their patented “white male” war dance. Just sayin’.
Afterwords
I was trying to ignore this whole pre-pre-primary thing, but Uncle Joe’s banalities jolted me out of it.
