In 1972 one could buy a board game called Who Can Beat Nixon? I never succumbed to the very real temptation, and I imagine that it might have been a nice investment for sale on eBay these days, but I suppose that each player selected a primary candidate and off you went campaigning. That the game was thought to have commercial appeal is an indicator of how much Democrats wanted to get rid of Dick Nixon. There has been something of that level of obsession in the party for succeeding Republican presidents, perhaps excepting Ford and Bush 41, but I think never with quite the urgency that I sense toward The Donald. And, indeed, the polls, for now, are showing that Democratic voters are valuing electability over ideology.
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