Kellyanne Conway tweeted a stupid conventional argument you hear from the “pundits” of the world.
It goes something like this. Democrats have no “bench” to run against Trump because of weakness left by Obama. This is one of those “smart sounding” pieces of conventional wisdom that is meaningless.
We are not talking about a baseball game, where we need a certain amount relievers to pitch. In the end you only need one good candidate. The GOP bragged about their bench in 2016, but it was all except for Trump and maybe Rand Paul, the exact same guy or girl running as Mitt Romney Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. They all wanted upper income tax cuts, voucherizing Medicare, and cutting “block-granting” Medicaid. It was Mitt Romney with a couple nice things said about Hispanics.
There are at least 15 serious Democrats in Statehouses or the Senate that would be candidates who could destroy the Donald. So even on its own terms the “bench” meme doesn’t make any sense.
Yet, with all stupid cliches and memes about politics, the Chris Clizzilas of the world will keep repeating this as Kellyanne Conway feeds it to them.