The current crop of progressive candidates for president appear to be heading off the same authenticity cliff that Hillary Clinton failed to navigate. Apologizing for previously normal mainstream behavior made to any group identity reduces these politicians to pandering puppets.
Being a successful prosecutor and enforcing laws should be a resume highlight and not a racial indictment of callousness. Voting for legislation outlining rights and responsibilities of immigrants is common sense representation of majority views and not xenophobic outrage. Apologizing for elite privilege as the main source for career advancement is patently absurd. Support of the enumerated right of gun possession or the legal maxim of “innocent until proven guilty” is not extremist behavior.
By not having a reasonably founded bedrock of principles and positions that can be argued and debated, these candidates are in free-fall from reality. By declaring they have “evolved” on important issues in front of any audience only shows that they are inauthentically portraying themselves as genuine people capable of leading.
