There’s a way for Democrats to save themselves, and American politics
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Who should Republicans fear on the opposing team? If you’re in the top tier of likely GOP nominees for president in 2024, who are your political consultants studying?
Republicans like to tell themselves that the Democrats are spent, that the party’s leadership is past its prime and its next generation is years from being ready to lead.
But is it true the cupboard is bare?
No one in Blake’s political hot-stove league is of much concern to center-right activists. The failures of 15 months of unified Democratic rule in D.C. are so many and so palpable — gas and grocery prices are the GOP’s best friends now — that the usual suspects on Blake’s list elicit more guffaws than furrowed brows.
Who ought to worry them? Three rising Democratic stars — not yet on most political radar screens but soon will be — strike me as formidable.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and California Rep. Ro Khanna are all a deft move, some luck, and a bold announcement away from positions of lasting influence. All have shown themselves smart and nimble.
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