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Remember Things Swing: A Gay Dad May Beat J.D. Vance To A Pulp Someday
Nobody really thought Bush would win again in 2004, although I guess the “Swift Boat” ad was pretty successful, as was Karl Rove’s strategy to terrify black men away from voting. So Bush won and got a second term. Without that term, Obama — who became a national star with the 2004 DNC speech — could never have been President. Logistically, he wouldn’t have run in 2008 against an incumbent John Kerry. And maybe the eight years since the speech, if he tried to run in 2012, would have been too long. But without Bush, you don’t get a guy with the middle name of “Hussein.” It’s just a direct repudiation of the Bush Era.
Similarly, coming off eight years of a black guy who inspired hope and change but drew up a lot of racial Animus (plus eight years after a horrible economic downturn where the rich got bailed out because they were “too big to fail”), you had Trump. There was almost no way Hilary was going to win that election, in hindsight, and that's before you take into account that her strategy in the Upper Midwest was terrible.
In this way, many modern Presidents are a direct reaction to the era that came before. So for those who are terrified of a dystopian theology-bro future with J.D. Vance after Trump turns Mar-A-Lago into a senior…
