@jonathankoren there’s tremendous incumbency bias in the American system. it’s silly to blame the electorate (frankly it’s always silly to blame the electorate) for what is clearly a widespread institutional phenomenon. incumbents have rigged the game for themselves. health, even survival, of the republic depends on unrigging, really altering, that game into one that prizes flexibility over insiders’ stability.

deleon would not have won by highlighting feinstein’s dementia.