#Oprah

Why not Oprah for president?  She's not my first choice but if she managed to win the Democratic nomination I'd vote, volunteer, and donate as much as possible in 2020.  She strikes me as smart enough to understand that she could surround herself with policy types and leave the hefty lifting of undoing the Trump Years up to them.

But to hear fellow Dems moan and wail about how we need "real" politicians instead of celebrities is laughable in a post-Trump world.

For better or worse (ed. note: much, much worse), politics in America now is post-policy and entirely based on personality.  And that genie isn't going back into the bottle ever again.  There is no second-place trophy for maintaining your pure political principles in the face of a GOP that is more than fine with supporting the Orange Pussy-grabber.

I wish -- dear god I wish -- some sort of book-readin', Harvard edumacated Obama 2.0 were in charge these days.  And I hope Elizabeth Warren (no slouch in the book-readin', edmucated department herself) runs.

But let's not fool ourselves -- in American politics for the foreseeable future personality trumps (ahem) all now, given our sick "both sides do it" media culture and a Republican Party that's been arguing that any Democratic president since Clinton has been somehow illegitimate, be it due to consensual blow-jobs or supposedly being born in Africa.

Adjust or die.  It's really that simple.