Democrat and Republican theorists and the punditry supply complicated explanations for the 2024 presidential elections. These at all times embody a slate of necessary new attitudes, insights and techniques to make sure that the identical end result does (or doesn’t) occur once more.
However I ponder if later historians would possibly extra merely view 2024 as a yr wherein a serious political occasion misplaced its well-known candidate on the final minute, hurried a just about unknown successor into the function — a candidate with braveness however with out the present of on the spot charisma, with inadequate calendar time to determine a coherent picture and, within the discount, a candidate with the appreciable drawback in American politics of being a lady. The opposite occasion strategically exaggerated the violent risks we confronted at residence and overseas, making an impetuous male bully appear the safer alternative.
The 14th-century cleric William of Occam may need seen it so.
William Andersen, Seattle
