When This Blows Over

The Democratic Party is now neither a centrist nor a
coalition party. Instead, it finds itself at a dead-end: had
Hillary Clinton emulated her husband’s pragmatic politics
of the 1990s, she would have never won the nomination—
even though she would have had a far better chance of
winning the general election.
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Wikileaks reminded us that the party is run
by rich, snobbish, and often ethically
bankrupt grandees. In John Podesta’s world,
it’s normal and acceptable for Democratic
apparatchiks to talk about their stock
portfolios and name-drop the Hamptons,
while making cruel asides about “needy”
Latinos, medieval Catholics, and African-
Americans with silly names—who are
nonetheless expected to keep them in power.
Such paradoxes are not sustainable. Nor is
the liberal nexus of colluding journalists,
compromised lobbyists, narcissistic Silicon
Valley entrepreneurs, family dynasties, and
Clintonian get-rich ethics.