2020 is just a 2016 Reboot...

with Elizabeth Warren starring in the First Woman Candidate role, and Bernie Sanders once again playing himself...

I suspect, despite what all the HRC women pundits say, that the result will be much the same.  America doesn't much take to a liberal woman telling them what they can do for her to remake the country to help her struggling people, especially when they've a bit of money in their pocket and the economy is good.

Let Bernie win already. If he loses in the general, the Party flirted with the far-left, and came away wanting. The country can send a message if the Democratic party can't.

But spinning your wheels in a ditch for three plus years, complaining? And then making exactly the same errors in the next election? Watching your former party leaders preach global warming, praise Chicago, then settle for the rest of his life on ... Martha's Vineyard, in an exclusive someday-soon-to-be-underwater oceanside property?

Truth be told, the election the country needs a redo on -- after the disastrous costly and deadly Bush W. years -- is the election of 2008.  Until the party grapples with the identity-politics scheme that arose when the charismatic talking and junior senator jumped the line, I suspect it will be identity politics all the way down...

Will the women voters stay home, enough of them, if Bernie's Bros stick with him in Iowa and he starts putting up some primary wins to make him the nominee?  Will enough of the black vote turn out if there's nobody (non-white) to excite them? Do identity politics matter more than who can get the job done?

If it ain't broke, why fix it?
(So those entitled, who can't really drive, can run it into a ditch again? No thanks. I'm keeping my keys...)
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AMENDED:  And stylistically, I hate to have to tag this on here, but ... you don't get points if you get there quickly without showing your work these days so... let me fully spell it out for your slower synapses.
 When I write,
"Do identity politics matter more than who can get the job done?", the "job" is not that of getting elected.  The job is of governing, working to implement solid, well-crafted and well-thought-out policies that can THEN be "sold" to the other party's legislators and leaders, and to the American people.

Sneaking stuff through in the middle of the night, privately castigating the intelligence of your countrymen, not reading bills before you pass them, having the Supreme Court twist itself into a multi-flavored pretzel to ensure your unConstitutional mandate legislation -- is it a penalty, or is it a tax? --  passes muster... that's what happens when someone "wins" who wasn't prepared to work the position -- the "job" he, or she, was elected to. It's not a "black" thing... but,

That was the problem of Barry Obama, in a collegiate hornbook nutshell.  Looks good on paper, and in person too (if you like that slight, mixed look), but looks and branding have little to do really with governing a country or ultimately getting the job done for the people that you promised.

Don't look now,
Those cars appear still to be in the ditch, wheels spinning, all these years later...

(Other People: not the Obamas. Reports say the former presidential family have relinquished their national driving privileges and freedoms in the hinters, content to be chauffeured and flown everywhere their schedule in America now dictates. Que success, or is it Quelle?)
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* "that's what happens when someone "wins" who wasn't prepared to work the position -- the "job" he, or she, was elected to."  You wanna play that game?, voters responded in 2016, we'll play that game. Identity politics is not all it is cracked up to be, afterall. When will the lesson be learned?