Will the Obama coalition vote for "a boring old white democrat"?
Noemie Emery cracks me up. Here's a great paragraph from a recent article or hers:
Obama’s declining share of the youth vote in 2012 already suggested that disillusionment had succeeded hope and change. Taking 2008 as the benchmark may have been a mistake, as it’s not every year Democrats come up with a hip, young, biracial messiah who hasn’t had time yet to screw up the country. Obama lost 3 million votes and several percentage points in his re-election. And the question of whether the Obama coalition will turn out for a boring old white Democrat is sure to be the operative one of 2016.
But wait, there's more:
There will also be a disconnect between the younger, browner and hipper Obama coalition and the candidates the Democrats will offer up — old, white, and dull. Beneath Obama are Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, both in their 70s. The Golden State is represented by Dianne Feinstein, 80, Barbara Boxer, 73, and Jerry Brown, who was a new face when elected the first time in 1974.
Well, we've known for some time that the democrats at the top really don't like people of color very much.
One could almost think of the Obama coalition - gentry liberals and so-called "people of color" - as the "plantation coalition": Tom Steyer and the guy who leaf-blows his driveway walking hand in hand to vote for Hillary, who will be sure to keep each one I just mentioned doing exactly the same work after they vote for her that they were doing before. Everyone in their proper place.
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