I'm always bemused when I read of the Bush dynasty or the Clinton dynasty or, for that matter, the Kennedy dynasty. Doesn't it take more than a second heir to make a dynasty? And doesn't a dynasty require a somewhat closer series of events? I grant you that if Hillary Clinton became president and then Chelsea became president immediately after, given Bill Clinton's presidency, that might constitute a dynasty, but just barely. Or if, with Geo HW receding into the past but here and W still on the scene, JEB became president and followed into the presidency by his son George Prescott Bush- yeah, that could be called a dynasty. Heaven forfend.
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