The Republicans trot out one of these types every election – somebody who by any real metric is just another Bush Era Conservative, but who also mouths whatever dumb kind of pseudo-populism happens to be in vogue on the fringes of the party. They’re almost always women or minorities: Sarah Palin was one of the first, then we got Michelle Bachmann, Ben Carson, etc. And for about a month suburban wine moms and soccer dads go into ecstasies on social media about how “this is true political INNOVATION, we Republicans are the ones with REAL diversity” and many other such inanities, only to fall in at last behind whatever bland mainstream candidate the party leadership has been grooming all along.
The Republicans trot out one of these types every election – somebody who by any real metric is just another Bush Era Conservative, but who also mouths whatever dumb kind of pseudo-populism happens to be in vogue on the fringes of the party. They’re almost always women or minorities: Sarah Palin was one of the first, then we got Michelle Bachmann, Ben Carson, etc. And for about a month suburban wine moms and soccer dads go into ecstasies on social media about how “this is true political INNOVATION, we Republicans are the ones with REAL diversity” and many other such inanities, only to fall in at last behind whatever bland mainstream candidate the party leadership has been grooming all along.
Yeah, “I’m young and different, but also want to keep all the young and different people out of the country and out of politics.”