OPINION:
Witnessing the ‘much ado’ over the declining support among the vast majority of Democrats for a second Biden term, I am reminded of the famous quip by the immortal Yogi Berra: “It’s deja vu all over again.”
In 1856, Democratic President Franklin Pierce enraged the nation with his support of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. Pierce was so unpopular that his own party refused to nominate him for a second term — the only time in American history that an incumbent who wanted a second term was refused renomination. Instead, the 1856 Democrats nominated James Buchanan, who was as weak a chief executive as Pierce had been.
One wonders who the discontented Democrats have waiting in the wings this time — another Buchanan?
MIKE MCADOO
San Francisco, California
