It with some mild embarrassment that I confess I am enjoying this year's Presidential contest. This is fun.
And it's not just on the Republican side. I had been assuming that the Democratic candidate debates must be snoozers, so I just read the transcripts. Now I'm thinking I may have been wrong. It's one thing to know that white gentry liberals, especially young ones, are fleeing from Mrs. Clinton as if she were a zombie invasion—which in a sense of course she is— but it might be even more entertaining to watch her trying to deal with the fact from a debate platform.
And then, yes, the GOP. If the Democratic contest is vaudeville, the Republicans are giving us Grand Opera, or at any rate opera buffa. If the party Establishment candidate on the Democratic side has suffered an alarming, though non-lethal, draining of votes away from her to an insurgent from the fringes, the equivalent candidate on the Republican side, Jeb Bush, suffered a complete and humiliating rout.
It looks to me as though the two-party system has been an illusion. We actually have four parties:
- The White Gentry Liberal Party, as represented by Bernie Sanders.
- The party of labor unions and NAMs—that's Non-Asian Minorities—led by Mrs. Clinton.
- The Donorist-Capitalist-Neocon party, which rallied behind Jeb Bush and is now staging a desperate, and surely doomed, rearguard action under Marco Rubio.
- The White Prole Party, under the leadership of Donald Trump.
I don't think this four-party Read more >>