inheritor

RFK Jr. appears to be a proud inheritor of the Bircher conspiracy theory about fluoride in the water.

It allows them to “claim the mantle of the future” after being bogged down by concerns about Biden’s age, let’s them position Harris as an inheritor of Obama’s legacy, and contrasts her well with Trump, whose “invocation of American carnage strikingly rejected hope.”

Many argue she should also be seen and recognised as the descendant of another kind of family and that is the inheritor of generations of black female activists.

Thornton Wilder, whose “Our Town” is the most famous dramatic inheritor of Winesburg’s legacy, cautioned in his stage directions that the play “should be performed without sentimentality or ponderousness — simply, dryly and sincerely.”

He endorsed Trump when he dropped out of the race, trying to position himself as the future inheritor of the Trump mantle.