No, nepotism has definitely been a thing. Your original text made it seem like there’s been a long history of the Democrats having spouses (a singular instance for either party) or a VP (less concerning) being the candidate. It also made it seem like you considered it nepotism. VPs aren’t nepotism.
You say this like you’re talking about more than exactly two people over more than exactly two elections.
You think prior to 2016 nepotism hasn’t been an issue in US politics?
And someone agree with that and upvoted it?
Because I said:
Now there’s an autocorrect error in there, but I meant the last couple decades.
I mean, for fucks sake you think GW Bush became president on his own merits?
No, nepotism has definitely been a thing. Your original text made it seem like there’s been a long history of the Democrats having spouses (a singular instance for either party) or a VP (less concerning) being the candidate. It also made it seem like you considered it nepotism. VPs aren’t nepotism.
Only if you ignore the period that stopped the first sentence and move it to the command in the middle of the next sentence and then stopped reading…