Can you name them? Can you name even half of them? Do you know where they come from or what they do or have done? Do you know for what they stand or how they differ?
“They” are the blur of candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination. …
The composition of the field — the most diverse ever — highlights the degree to which Democrats are divided by ideology, generation, race, gender and geography. It is a party undergoing a power struggle over whose voices will be heard and which voters should be courted most. This is not a destructive conflict, but to pretend that it doesn’t exist, that it isn’t part of the backdrop of the race does a disservice to the realities of the moment. CONT.
Dan Balz, Washington Post