True. And in those days, the union bosses were a different breed than today.

But the new establishment that was born in the New Deal changed with time. In the 1970s, the ‘new class’ emerged, and the center of gravity in the Democratic Party shifted away from the old manufacturing/transport/etc. union labor to the new ‘managerial class’ types. They more or less inherited the mantle of the establishment.

But the old union labor Democrats were broadly in step with the general public, or large swaths of it. Their inheritors are not.

And should one be therefore very skeptical about the Democratic Party’s gambit in this case, one can expect that the Democrats will be fast and furious—and entirely unhinged—in their PRE-PLANNED, UNIFORM, HOW-DARE-YOU? “moral”-sounding reaction, blasting accusations against anyone who doesn’t accept their tendentious, artificial “reality”…which is, after all, their ugly and odious MO.

Most Presidents don’t have much—Carter had plenty, but with lousy policies and lousy ideas about what good govt should be doing. Integrity, and all personal virtues, are important, but not as important as good laws & policies with good outcomes.

I don’t agree on Carter having integrity. I think that was fake and media driven. One example: his election monitoring in Venezuela was about enabling Hugo Chavez. He came back and declared in an honest election, something he wouldn’t know.

On the contrary I think their eyes are wide open. They want the country run by unelected and unaccountable people who have the Right Opinions. It does not matter who the President is to them, because the President isn’t really running things and they are just fine with that.

I agree.

Sure. I’m not quoting him because I agree with him, if you have that impression. People lamenting the difficulty of using the 25th Amendment to remove Biden should be aware of folks like Dr Dodes and the use that will be made of such people.