Famed journalist H.L. Mencken once observed that the entire aim of politics is to keep the populace in a state of alarm by menacing it with imaginary hobgoblins.

Gazing into a crystal ball for clues into the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination contest would likely reveal an exceedingly murky picture.

In July of 2018, Commentary published an article by Yuval Levin that caused everyone who thinks about the balance of power among the branches in Washington, D.C., to say, “Of course! That’s it exactly!”