Most of what you say about Harris was also true of Obama, so it's not that uncommon. But hopefully she's as solid a candidate. :)

Actually, going back through presidents, a lot of them seem to be relatively fresh to Washington. Clinton, Gw, Regan, and Carter were all Governors, Obama was a one term senator, Ford was a preposterous fluke and the longest "Washington insider" to become president (25 years as a representative) albeit he never actually ran, followed by HW who was an ambassador, vice president and CIA director.

Sanders has actually been in Washington longer than most of the recent presidents have.

I do think she's indicative of, hopefully, a shift towards younger people in politics. For a long time it was reported that young people in politics were actively impeded from progressing in politics "because they don't understand" and are too young. However, I don't think this is because of her age, as she's older than Obama was when elected, but rather because the dinosaurs are dying.

Feinsteinn was the start, McConnel is serving his last term, Pelosi is playing stock market. The political climate has really changed in the last 12 years and I'm just not sure that the impedance is just age related anymore, but alignment. Another shift we can look to is 2016 with how Bernie was a very popular candidate but didn't have the alignment that Clinton did. At the time, it was him and AOC as the leftist party leaders, Clintons for Democrats, and MAGA because Republicans have ceased to exist.

Parts of the Republican party are now trying to rebuild as there's a not insignificant portion who dislike what MAGA has done to the political climate. But they also aren't really running for local offices, it's still right-wing Dominionists vying for those positions. And unfortunately a large amount of red states are doing everything they can to destroy their public education.

The Democratic party has been shifting foreign policy but not in the right ways, but more than ever there are people who are starting to see the value of actual progressives in politics, shedding light on the B.S. that the Democrats have done. Far fewer purposefully evil policies, but they still exist and more about political tactics, like the attempt on Roe to rally voters among a number of others. And of course, the support of the abhorrent wars.

What I mean to say is that I hope this is paving a path towards more people like AOC and Bernie in politics. That sure as hell wasn't happening throughout 2016, there was a large number of people like us who had to leave their positions in red states due to threats against their lives, something that has been a major factor in why I feel it's so important to not only vote locally but to prevent a repeat of 2016. The sheer amount of evil that was accomplished really set us back in pretty much every conceivable way, which is why it's so important that it doesn't happen again.

And Clinton isn't really either, because Hillary was never pres or veep. She tried to become a "dynasty" but failed, so you could have posted the same "no more dynasties" headline in 2016. Or... in 2008, when she didn't make it to the general, and neither did a Bush. By my count the last "dynasty" was the Bushes, and it ended when Obama was sworn in. And the last dynasty before that was, uh, the Roosevelts? Unless I'm missing one in the VPs.

Yeah, if you leave Biden out of it it's a lot less interesting. You could also tack on Mondale, Ford, Nixon, and Johnson and take it back into the 40s, but... Why.

It will probably be the 1st President whose dick pic entered the congressional record before he even ran for office.

Christ, let's hope not.

Oh yeah, the new Lyndon LaRouche!