Larger fields of candidates are becoming the new normal in American politics
TEN DEMOCRATS took the stage in Detroit, Michigan on July 30th to debate the party’s plan for enacting progressive policies and beating Donald Trump in next year’s presidential contest. On July 31st, ten more will try to persuade voters that their ideas are better. So large a slate could fill two football teams, provide five sets of starters in the NBA or be the primary cast for a Broadway musical.
Elaine Kamarck of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, and author of “Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates”, believes this system makes it far too easy for parties to be hijacked by outsiders. “No other political process in the modern world”, Ms Kamarck writes, “has so abandoned this critical vetting function of the political party in the nominating process.
It is too late for reformers to affect the system that will be used in 2020, but it is not unimaginable that they may do so later on. Both parties already enact restrictions on who may run, and even the constitution includes some anti-democratic requirements, such as the need to be 35 years or older to run for president. Nor is it abnormal for the parties to exercise a heavy hand in their nomination processes.
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