Andy Beshear, Political Moderation, and the Ancient Problem We Keep Pretending Is New

The quiet elevation of Andy Beshear as a potential future presidential contender tells us something uncomfortable but undeniable: America is starving for normalcy. Not perfection. Not revolution. Just leaders who sound like they inhabit the same reality as the people they govern. Beshear is being discussed as a possible Democratic standard-bearer precisely because he doesn’t…