O'Donnell: Jon Stewart should head the DNC - no kidding [View all]
O'Donnell: Jon Stewart should head the DNC - no kidding
Donna Gentile O'Donnell
The Philadelphia Inquirer
These people are tired of being ignored and lied to and sick of watching Washington elites serve themselves while ignoring the needs of others. These people know their kids will not have a better life than they did - the very heart of the American dream - because their chances of getting through college are evaporating along with their own job prospects.
Bernie Sanders' successful campaign should have been a signal to Democratic Party leaders that something extraordinary was happening.
Instead of exercising leadership by adapting to the tone and tenor of the country, they doubled down on a bad bet. They should have listened to Hillary Clinton's rhetorical question, "Why am I not beating (Donald Trump) by 50 percent?" Instead, they failed to grasp the enormity of the question and dig out an answer.
I have no idea if Stewart has any interest in taking on such a task. I know only that he inspires thoughtfulness with a caliber of humor, political and otherwise, that is unsurpassed in America. And he has a civic-minded sense of purpose, as demonstrated in so many ways over the course of his public career.
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