Going after incumbents is never easy ... and, while I don't know Mr. Hopkins' views, I'm really not impressed with either political party at this point.  Now if he'd jettisoned the "Democrat" label and gone "independent," he'd definitely have my support.  At this point, unless someone goes after their own party and criticizes it (see Sanders/Trump), it's really just more of the same, isn't it?  "New" candidates cut from the same cloth as the old ones?