The Philadelphia Inquirer
Attorney General Merrick Garland might be the ultimate example of the American Dream-era baby boomer at the core of today’s Democratic Party — especially its elite leadership cadre. The grandchild of immigrants who came to America to flee antisemitism in Russia, Garland grew up in the booming 1960s middle-class suburbs of Chicago, won a scholarship to Harvard and entered the law in the hazy aftermath of the Watergate scandal, when Richard Nixon’s resignation fooled many into believing that “the system worked.” Increasingly after 1979 — the year Garland began his first, brief stint in the U.S. …