the dem's candidate for 2020

I didn't realize that Old Dog was reading Frontier.  If he would like a hard copy I could put mine in his hands at a seminar.  I don't recall the French minister to the US calling American the born enemy of all European peoples.  I tried the index in the book, and then I went to google and mostly what I got was like the whole book, but the eighth google response was The Beaglesonian Institute.  I expect that was tailored to me, but still, a little recognition,

Oh there it is in the preface. I wonder about the context.  The French revolution was still going on and I believe the US was appalled by how radical it was.  Although Jefferson was a fan of the French, I think the US was more inclined to side with England in disputes.

I think we Americans have always looked down on Europe.  They were just not  straightforward like us, they were conniving and decadent.  As befits a nation founded by Puritans we had the one true path and everybody else was going straight to hell.  Early America had no literature or art or philosophy to speak of and the Europeans sniffed down their perfumed sleeves at us for not having no culture, and that had to rankle us.  Even today it has that smirch.  If you are against socialized medicine to bolster your point you call it European style socialized medicine. 


I think democratic socialism is just a label, like progressive,and not like a party ripe for bolting the dems.  I can see the lefts and the mods struggling to control the democratic party but I don't see either side bolting if the other side wins.  Still it could get ugly.  Right now the two wings are united against Trump, but when it comes to who gets the nomination in 2020 there will likely be a bloody battle.

But I may have a solution.  I was watching Avenatti on one of his numerous appearances lately, and I noted how pleasing his appearance is.  He looks and talks smart, takes that reasonable but forceful tone, doesn't contradict himself, never gives himself up to shouting as so many of those talking heads (male and female) find so manly.

Avenatti for pres.  Hum, are others thinking that?  Off to the google machine, and it has been whispered though it seems not to have reached prime time yet.  Here is a man fighting the good fight, and with no history (so far) of scandal, and not a man of the left or the right and therefore an ideal compromise candidate.  It's something to think about.

As for Old Dog's crackpot theory, I don't think Trump has stopped being useful to the Russkies.  Why abandon a perfectly useful tool and risk the Trumpist and anti Trumpist forces uniting (we are in crackpot theory land here) against Putin?