CLARE MALONE
If you asked the muse of American politics to go Homeric on you and sing of the man who caused the Democratic Party to wander in a wilderness of existential terrors and identity crises since 2016, she might mistakenly start a ditty that was only about Donald Trump.
After all, the president has been the focus of massive protests since his election, and his has seemingly been the only name on the lips of Democratic politicians as they campaign to regain control of the House and Senate this year. He is Twitter logorrheic in the face of tragedy and scandal, and his policies are anathema to the values and ideals of the Obama administration, already a golden age in many Democrats’ eyes.