Yep, and the Bush family also has a much longer chain of national influence going back decades before the father-son President pair. We nearly had the makings of a Clinton dynasty had Hillary won in 2016. Some Trump supporters were hoping to draft Jr. and/or Ivanka into running for President in the future. You’d think the American people had some weird fetish for family dynasties, but of course it’s really more like, powerful families stay powerful and most families can’t even begin to get access to the levers of power, and the political party machinery which their social class controls is always down with handing opportunities to themselves.
powerful families stay powerful and most families can’t even begin to get access to the levers of power, and the political party machinery which their social class controls is always down with handing opportunities to themselves
That and also you can't trust politicians so if someone gets in there you like, you at least hope their offspring will promote the same values. It's a "known quantity" vs. the unknown.
Yep, and the Bush family also has a much longer chain of national influence going back decades before the father-son President pair. We nearly had the makings of a Clinton dynasty had Hillary won in 2016. Some Trump supporters were hoping to draft Jr. and/or Ivanka into running for President in the future. You’d think the American people had some weird fetish for family dynasties, but of course it’s really more like, powerful families stay powerful and most families can’t even begin to get access to the levers of power, and the political party machinery which their social class controls is always down with handing opportunities to themselves.
That and also you can't trust politicians so if someone gets in there you like, you at least hope their offspring will promote the same values. It's a "known quantity" vs. the unknown.