Here is a thought for both parties as they head toward 2024: beware that large, diverse crowd of talented newcomers. It will do you no good. This has been tried two times before and has led to disaster.

In 2016, it was just such a field that gave us Donald Trump and his win that November. Democrats did it again in 2020 and walked right up to the edge of disaster. They ended up rushing to embrace one old white man in order to avoid nominating another.