Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: NYT ltte: Run a governor, not a Senator, for president in 2020 [View all]lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)and that was 40 years ago... I believe that is changing now. Yes, we live in a divided nation... but the concept that the executive branch is a bunch of evil bureaucrats is only held by one side... and that side is a minority.
They won the last election... there were many reasons why, not just the "federal government is bad".
last point, if the nation is so fed up with "washington insiders", why do Presidents get re-elected more often than not? After 4 years in the White House, the President is the ultimate Washington insider.
of the list I presented (last 13), only Ford, Carter, and Bush 1 were not elected President when they were already President. OK, make that 11 not 13, since Kennedy never got the chance and Trump isn't there yet.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden