He’s even more well-educated (and also played football at Stanford), looks more “Hollywood”, and is a hell of a lot more of a friendly, networking schmoozer than Obama ever was.
Plus, he’s had more relevant experience in government and can’t be so easily boogiemanned as a secret Kenyan Muslim with a funny name. And finally, he’s actually capable of convincingly reaching across the aisle.
In short, I think he actually meets your requirement of being able to convey the level of confidence of an incompetent madman.
ETA: Shit, let’s be real, he makes the sauve Obama look like Urkle.
I don’t think the problem was ever that Obama wasn’t smart enough, or charismatic enough, or didn’t do enough to reach across the aisle.
Obama spent his terms enjoying zero compromise from the GOP, constantly needing to defend himself against nonsense like the birther thing, and firefighting ignorance because of the way US politics is currently set up. The GOP right now puts party over country, and embraces (actual) fake news, to a far greater extent than the dems.
But who knows how things will be in 2020? Trump’s tenure could be disruptive enough that the landscape will look very different.
A forum change would work better. The current title in this forum is… just no, and the your suggested title in general is… just NO! The next thing you know, FOX will be citing you as the source for insinuating an affair between them.
Well, he hasn’t announced yet, and the stories about one of the first big Democratic mix-ups haven’t been written yet, but there is already a super-PAC with 4 million raised (out of 10 million planned) to support **Cory Booker’s 2020 run. **Sanders and Warren will raise all their money talking about how Booker’s was raised for him. https://www.thebeatdc.com/blog/2019/1/3/super-pac-launched-to-support-cory-booker
While we’re talking celebrity fantasy politics, I’d enjoy Cenk Uygur having a run.
Not that I agree with him on everything, or think he’d have a realistic chance. But someone like him is what we in general – and democrats in particular – need in the current political climate; plain-speaking and calling people on their bullshit.
If we’re going that route, then I’d like to see George Carlin in public office. Yeah, he’s somewhat past his peak nowadays, but he could probably still out-debate Trump.
I figured he might but it was just kind of weird that when someone suggested a currently active political commentator Chronos replies “If we’re going that route, how about a dead comedian?”.
