Spoiler alert: No one has the slightest idea who the Democratic candidate for president will be in 2028. Including me.
But that doesn’t mean it’s not a subject being discussed every single day in the nation’s capital and elsewhere among what might be described as political circles. So I thought I would give you a brief summary of some of the buzz, leavened (I hope) by some of what I am actually seeing in the real world.
We still have to make it through all of 2026 to even get to the midterms, and the presidential election is two long years after that. This leads to one of the key points to be made while ‘Beastcapping’ this next election: We have little idea what the central issues or the political theme of the race will be. Yes, clean up on aisle Trump and anger over the past four years will be part of it. Yes, so too will be the fact that American democracy and our economy are both broken, rigged, serving the very rich and leaving the rest of the country to struggle.
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