Analysis: 2020 promises to offer two old men but no new ideas
is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris, offering weekly perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption.
Instead, this promises to be a race above all about character and personal qualities. It will be waged by old men—age 73 for the incumbent, age 77 for the presumptive challenger—whose essential worldviews were formed decades ago and whose essential instincts and preoccupations are backward-looking. Here’s one to be answered by Trump supporters: If he wins a second term, his most important policy goal will be: What?
Bill Clinton, whose 1990s-era policies are largely out of fashion and whose personal lapses are now judged censoriously by Democrats who were once more forgiving, perhaps still might get some credit for knowing something about presidential politics. One of his signature maxims is,Hmm….It would be interesting to get Clinton’s unfiltered analysis of this one. His theme was the Fleetwood Mac song, “Don’t Stop .
Even as the world changes dramatically, by all evidence what Democratic voters seem to want this year—no less than Republican Trump diehardsDemocrats this year already rejected the candidate of generational change, 38-year-old former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who said his youth gave him personal connection with the imperative of addressing climate change that older candidates lacked. They also rejected the candidate of detailed plans, Sen.
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