In all likelihood, Yang’s nascent popularity will fail to translate into a campaign with enough momentum to topple any of the DNC favored heavyweights. Beto’s lukewarm, vanilla, centrist liberalism is a flavor that resonates with a large enough cohort of voters. He’s Obama-lite for a generation of spurned Democrats who just want the self-imposed nightmare of 45 to end.
However, for the sake of democracy itself, it would be comforting to believe that a candidate who desperately wants to talk policy over platitudes has even the most infinitesimal hope of success. Take Beto’s campaign trail propaganda tour versus Yang’s willingness to go up against Joe Rogan – there is no clearer distinction: Yang is a candidate who believes what they’re saying. Beto just believes he needs to deliver some specific combination of buzzwords ad nauseam.
Andrew Yang is eager to expose himself and argue a new form of politics – Beto is simply trying to stay on message. What kind of political behavior is most worthy of the Oval Office?
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