You can divide the Democratic candidates into progressives and moderates, or fundis and realos, or white and minority, or fighters and healers. In the final analysis, what may matter more than anything else is the split between mild and hot and spicy–the chicken wing test.
Hot and spicy candidates stand out as a result of the way they look or what they say. Mild candidates don’t; their platforms typically involve bringing divergent groups together to work for a common purpose.
Kamala Harris is hot and spicy. Joe Biden would be mild, as would Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar. Elizabeth Warren wants to be hot and spicy, but she tries too hard, and it doesn’t come off–at least not yet. Bernie Sanders? I’ll analyze him in a future Sandersday post.
What will the electorate want in a race against the hot and spicy Donald Trump? My guess is a second hot and spicy choice, but that remains to be seen.