i'm starting to think that the problem may be that cory booker's vocabulary is too large for his plotted path.

again: i broadly don't like his policies (i'm ten degrees to his left), but he has an ability and habit to very effectively project himself as the smartest person in the room, and if you're going to reduce the process of this to just picking the best brain because you don't agree with any of them on anything anyways, then he kind of rises to the top of the list, for me. he does stand out in the field. but, i don't think that's what his target audience really wants.

he may want to start carrying a thesaurus, so he can start using smaller words.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/cory-booker-white-supremacy/595684/