Lina Khan for President? If Liberal Media Is Digging This Deep, the Dems Have Serious Problems

The Democrats just wouldn't seem to have much of a field for the 2028 presidential election. One would think, based on history if nothing else, that the Democrats would come into the 2028 presidential election with the wind at their backs; it's rare for a party to hold the White House for three terms, the last time being in 1988, when George H.W. Bush won election after the two terms of President Reagan.

This isn't a normal year, though. President Trump's second term is non-consecutive; we had a Democrat in the White House in between. Also, this second Trump administration has been like no other. But the main problem Democrats face is this: They have no candidates. Who do they have they can go to? Will they bring Hillary Clinton back to see if she can lose a third presidential election? Will they nominate the abrasive far-left Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)? Or the painfully dull former Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who seems to possess the superpower of being the most boring politician in America today?

A piece in CNN is proposing a choice out of left field: A former chief of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under Joe Biden, and a campaign adviser/aide to the communist Mayor of New York: Lina Khan.

When then-President Joe Biden named her chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan was too much for many leading Democrats. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer declined meetings when she was chair, people familiar with the matter tell CNN. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, once she took over as the 2024 nominee, conspicuously didn’t speak about Khan and avoided appearances with her on the campaign trail.

Now, Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, who are sounding out problems or workshopping potential solutions. Schumer headlined a press conference in Washington to introduce a bill that would break up meat processing companies, inspired by Khan’s methods and with her input, but which a Schumer aide noted also drew on years of his own consumer advocacy.

Color me skeptical about that "constant calls" business. She's too busy giving economic advice to New York's socialist mayor to take calls, anyway. But she does have the support of a few Democrat stalwarts, like Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whom we already noted. By their supporters shall ye know them, and this is a former FTC commissioner who was ignored by even the likes of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

But think for a moment about this. If CNN, a bastion of the left, even among the legacy media, is proposing someone this obscure as the Democrats' standard-bearer in 2028, it says two things about their assessment of the Democrat field:

First: It seems that CNN is estimating that Democrats and the electorate in general are far to the left of where they really are. The United States remains a country that sits, for the most part, at the central peak of the political bell curve. Democrats don't get that, but it remains the case.

Second: CNN evidently sees the Democratic field as so thin and weak that they are OK with someone as obscure as Lina Khan, about whom the great majority of Americans will only react with "So, who is she? Never heard of her." The majority of voters aren't political junkies or policy geeks, although if you're reading these words, you are probably one or both. Name recognition is important; Lina Khan doesn't have that.

If this is where CNN thinks the race is going, the GOP may have more of a lock on the White House than we may have thought.