The Slow, Painful Death of the American Political Dynasty

Politico: “In one important way, Cuomo’s defeat in Tuesday’s mayoral primary was not an only-in-New York story. For all the local flavors and personal peculiarities of the former governor’s downfall, it also fits into a larger national story — the extinction of some of the country’s mightiest political dynasties.”

“This is an age of angry populism and political disruption; breakneck social and technological change; and broad, deep frustration with the economic status quo. Family names that voters once found comforting now seem to have other connotations — complacency, insularity, privilege, obsolescence.”