Unfortunately there seems to be a deeply ingrained desire for a “noble class”. A psychologist would probably say its a longing to return to the “family setting”.
It’s the pretty boy thing. Just ask Dan Coats. He wouldn’t run for reelection to his senate seat because Evan Bayh was running. That was ‘98. 12 years later Evan Bayh quits and Coats ‘steps up’. Consider them the Kennedy’s without the drownings and rapes/drugs. This pretty boy can write his ticket. When you look at Indiana you get Dick Lugar and the current governor as senators-squishy. Let’s hope this Bayh doesn’t become one of the 100 senators.
Family…and Tribe.