Donald Trump's remarkable success in the 2016 presidential race has sent all conventional wisdom out the window, rendering the usual political pundits unable to explain it or predict where it's going. But New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd's August 30, 2015 piece titled "Bush and Clinton Dynasties Hit Trump Bump" offers much-needed insight.
"Trump is a manifestation of national disgust -- with the money that consumed politics, with the dysfunctional, artificial status quo and with the turgid return to a Bush-Clinton race, with a less adept Bush and Clinton," Dowd writes.
Her column quotes another Dowd -- Matt Dowd, who was a strategist for George W. Bush. "The prospect of Hillary and Jeb as the nominees created a huge opening for something like this," he said. "The American public looked at it and said, 'I do not want that.' "
He suggests that Trump is the "badly needed match that burns down the status quo" and he is "sharper relief" for "the grinding-it-out, impatient entitlement, the overthinking and overcorrecting of Jeb and Hillary."
Maureen Dowd argues that Jeb Bush "feels he is owed because his brother sneaked in and snatched the presidency that his parents had designated for the Good Son, and because he was pressured to help W. purloin Florida in 2000."
She writes that Hillary Clinton "feels she is owed because she moved to Arkansas and then stuck it out with Bill through an anachronistic first lady job and Monica; because she was a team player and bided her time in the Senate and as secretary of state; because a whippersnapper named Barack sneaked in and snatched the presidency that should have been hers."
If Joe Biden joins the race, he would be a good match against Trump, Matt Dowd suggests. "Trump's the only one who can make Biden seem disciplined."
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