The state of the Dem presidential lineup suggests they have not yet recovered from Hillary's defeat. She proved the old model bankrupt and the vacuum hasn't been filled yet. The outrage of the last 3 years is smoke covering an ongoing redeployment.
Trump's incumbency, as Romneys statements occasionally remind us, masks the fact that the Republicans are similarly directionless. When the Donald goes as he eventually must, the question becomes : what does everyone do for an encore?
A lot of our anxiety stems from the fact that we've lost one consensus model of politics without finding another. We wait with bated breath for history to give us a new script but maybe none will come and we must make up the words as we go along.
