Opinion: What 2020 Democrats and Richard Nixon have in common
I’m Charles Lane. In real life, I look nothing like Peter Sarsgaard.
Enjoy this installment of the Post Pundit 2020 Power Ranking, but never forget that forecasting is even more cray-cray than usual because anything — anything — can happen. Or did you miss 2016? The Commentary Consider the improbable fact, which emerged over the last week, that the Democratic candidates spent much of that time recycling a Republican arch-villain’s 50-year-old idea for constitutional change.
"I believe the events of 1968 constitute the clearest proof that priority must be accorded to electoral college reform," President Richard M. Nixon said in February 1969.And mind you, Nixon won that election. It’s just that he felt his margin was dangerously narrow thanks to the reactionary — Trumpian, even — candidacy of Alabama Gov. George Wallace, a segregationist who captured 9.9 million popular votes and 46 electoral votes from the Deep South.
Certainly, that’s the theory behind the deepening insertion of Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s toe into presidential waters. “I come from the Ronald Reagan school of politics,” Hogan told The Post in an interview this week, which is the sort of thing a Republican would say while auditioning to be the tribune of the roughly 40 percent of GOP voters who tell pollsters they’d like a primary challenge to Trump.Alas for Hogan and his boosters, 40 percent is still a minority.
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