This includes, of course, Lenin and Stalin and Mao. Putin and the Kennedys. Not to mention entertainers of all sorts that aren't politicians.

Many exalt Sanders and Obama or Trump as a kind of messiah--many messiahs these days are political. Their noses run when they're sick and they wipe their butts like other mere mortals. They screw up and are often petty and self-serving. Yet we look for them as our defender, our bulwark, our provider. Silly, that.

But yes. Political dynasties included.