Brendan Nyhan

David Remnick picks up the anti-dynasty meme

In a New Yorker piece about a book that will remain nameless, David Remnick makes a welcome point:

If Senator Clinton does make a run for the White House, there will be every reason to size up her character, along with her grasp of policy, her record on health care, her work in the Senate. There will be reasons to ask, as well, how we can continue to instruct the world in democratic processes when we are moving toward a system of popularly elected dynasties, an alternation of the House of Bush and the House of Clinton, which then lectures the House of Saud.

Electability plus dynasty need to be the talking points for the next two years, or she will win the primaries.