So in tonight’s CNN debate, someone finally posed the dynasty question to Hillary (thank you to the 38-year-old woman from South Carolina who did so). While, from a purely political standpoint, the end of her response (it took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, etc.) was brilliant, I still await an answer to the substantive question of whether or not it’s healthy for the republic to be ruled by two competing aristocratic dynasties for an uninterrupted generation or more.
If you count Reagan/Bush, we are already at 28 years, beyond a full generation.
America has got so many serious problems now that it’s hard to pinpoint just where we went wrong. But it’s got to be somewhere in those 28 years.
He ain’t great, but Obama’s the only answer left at this point.