The time between elections is a contentious one for the residents of the Democratic savanna. While, on the surface, things may appear calm, behind office facades and in high end restaurants, a vicious power struggle is taking place. Staffers and consultants are busily establishing a pecking order that will determine who will participate in the next election season, and who will be left out. Evidence of this struggle occasionally breaks the placid surface. Here, we see a book release: a strong signal from the candidate and her coterie that she intends to stake her claim to another nomination. A move this aggressive demands a response: soon we shall see thinkpieces and retrospective articles from other factions. This struggle for dominance will play out over the next news cycle, and the contest may not produce a clear winner. Combatants will return to their offices to lick their wounds until another candidate makes a bid.
(In the voice of David Attenborough)
The time between elections is a contentious one for the residents of the Democratic savanna. While, on the surface, things may appear calm, behind office facades and in high end restaurants, a vicious power struggle is taking place. Staffers and consultants are busily establishing a pecking order that will determine who will participate in the next election season, and who will be left out. Evidence of this struggle occasionally breaks the placid surface. Here, we see a book release: a strong signal from the candidate and her coterie that she intends to stake her claim to another nomination. A move this aggressive demands a response: soon we shall see thinkpieces and retrospective articles from other factions. This struggle for dominance will play out over the next news cycle, and the contest may not produce a clear winner. Combatants will return to their offices to lick their wounds until another candidate makes a bid.
I can hear Attenborough saying this so clearly in my head.