Dan Proft Commentary

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In the late 1500s, Thomas Hobson worked as a carrier of messages and packages between Cambridge and London. He also owned a stable where he rented horses to university students. As some of those students took a liking to particular horses the favored horses got overworked. To solve this problem, Hobson simply placed the horses in a line, like taxis at an airport today, and compelled students to take the next horse in line. He provided only the appearance of a choice.

But I’m not talking about 16th century British transportation, I’m talking about the 2024 Democrat Party and the appearance of choice they have for their Presidential nominee.

They have neither the message to deliver nor the horse to deliver it. Regardless of the choice they make, Democrats are in for a Shakespearean-level comeuppance.

Particularly after the failed assassination attempt, Republicans are enthusiastically unified around Trump.

The convention speeches offered by Republicans vanquished by Trump in his first primary election like Rubio and Cruz as well as those in his last primary like DeSantis and Haley made clear that the interests of competing factions within the GOP are aligned.

You don’t hear much talk anymore even from the most outspoken Trump skeptics within the GOP about the former President’s ability to win in November, do you?

By contrast, the Democrats are splintered with only more acrimony and recriminations on the horizon.

Democrats are staring at an electoral equation Archimedes couldn’t solve.

Setting aside his catastrophic record, Democrats can’t stick with Biden simply because he still has a September 10th debate on his calendar.

They can’t turn to Kamala because, setting aside her own bouts with incoherence, she makes independent voters long for Hillary Clinton’s cackle.

They can’t end-run Kamala with a dude or a white chick because the Orthodox Identitarian Elites will don their vagina hats and revolt.

I’d suggest one of their tech billionaire financiers could come up with an AI solution but that donor class has already evacuated.

Even if they rode through the convention on a horse with a name, they have no message to deliver.

The hysterical Hitlerization of Trump is exposed as contrived when you offer thoughts and prayers for his well-being. And the calls for civil discourse come off as more than a bit disingenuous when you insist on that characterization.

The anti-democratic choices the Democrat Party made for the past eight years has left them without a message or a horse to carry it and instead only a Hobson’s Choice for President.