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Really, that is the message of 2016 and 2020. After 2 terms of Obama the White American electorate went insane (for anyone who gets offended, here's a Data point: no Democrat since 1964 has won a majority of the white vote-neither Carter, Clinton, Obama, nor Biden). That insanity led to Trump. He ran a campaign based on white male privilege (rapist, insurrectionist, convicted felon) and racism, with misogyny sprinkled in for taste. The autopsy of 2012 led the GOP to believe in the South African strategy (& it's no surprise that Elon Musk, Peter Theil, and what's his face-3 white male South Africans are at the top of the Trump campaign). They want to entrench their power by fiat if they have to before 2042 arrives when the US becomes majority-minority.

A white southern male Democrat like Beshear in the short term may be the best foot forward in the post Trump era.