Democratic Primaries

power, being someone who can't take a single well-meaning and well-thought-out step without crushing people underfoot, follows being elected. Remember?

You'll notice if you look, that most of the time sensible voters manage to weed out not just whackjobs and other incompetents but responsible, respected people who don't meet whatever minimum thresholds are in their minds. And Democratic voters always do.

Obama's experience was pretty darned minimal compared to his predecessors, we don't normally elect senators directly to the presidency, but we were already in new social media times, he had been a soaring star at whatever he'd turned his hand to, and he was at least a congressman and then briefly U.S. senator who dealt with national issues. And we didn't elect him as a first step to lowering the bar a few notches further.

But speaking in just shallow politically opportunistic terms, not caring about actual governance, Stacey Abrams is not even close to being the reassuring backup we need to offer America, someone people believe could become a real president a month after taking office, the way Roosevelt's VP had to.