When you click on today’s link, you’re going to see the columnist’s name and say, “Again?” To which I will respond, “Yup.” Because this man is unique in his party, though he shouldn’t be — he’s warning its leaders and donor class to moderate their tone and positions because their current stance is alienating voters. The leaders don’t appear interested in listening, their attitude being, “Voters will come around because they can’t possibly believe we’re worse than the other side.” Now there’s new polling indicating voters just might believe such a thing (there’s old polling indicating it, too), so is this when the poobahs start listening? I don’t know, but it shouldn’t be that hard of a decision.

The truth is neither party seems terribly interested in winning next year’s election. Or, if they are, they have a strange way of showing it. Cruising to the nomination on one side is a twice-impeached former president who won’t be able to kick off his general election campaign in earnest until after his criminal trial for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election… provided he’s found not guilty. On the other side is a president with deeply underwater approval ratings whose own party doesn’t want him to run and who daily sets the record for oldest chief executive in the nation’s history. This is an easily winnable race for anybody but these two. More broadly, this is an easily winnable race for any party but these two.

Yet they’re all we have. As of yet, neither party is willing to budge on policy and personality. My bet is the first to accept they need to make a change will be gifted with a sizable majority of voters. My other bet is neither party will make a change. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t read about why they ought to, though. After all, a man can dream. Just ask today’s columnist.