The Democrats need to look like a party ready to lead. At the moment, they do not.

2016 was an embarrassment for the GOP, but the Democrats seem hell-bent on following in their footsteps.

Everyone will remember how ridiculous the GOP looked in 2016. There were nearly twenty candidates all squashed up on a debate stage which was always too small to hold that many bodies — how were they going to fit that much ego in one place? They were stood shoulder to shoulder getting their thirty second speaking slots in debates that seemed to go on for three hours, each white man virtually indistinguishable from the other, not least because the camera had to pan so wide to fit them all in shot — but you can thank Chris Christie for that. Indeed, the GOP looked so ridiculous that their own voters chose someone who up until the last minute wasn’t even part of their party.

Somewhere along the line though, some people were clearly impressed by what they were seeing. Having several candidates of the same party kicking lumps out of each other, airing the party’s dirty laundry on national TV just months before a general election— what could be better? Hey, let’s get a piece of that, the Democrats said.

Well, true to their word, they’re nearly there. Congratulations. When the GOP set the…