Everyman

The original Renault 5, launched in 1972, was a quirky little everyman car with boxy looks and low running costs that became a cult classic.

But WelcomeFest was a slightly more public version of this: Maybe not for the everyman, exactly, but at just $20 a pop, for the politics-adjacent person who lives in D.C. and has the afternoon free to figure out how exactly to reach the everyman in the future, the type who is going to need to be brought back into the Democratic fold—and who moderates say they have the best chance of retrieving.

The actor’s handsome, vaguely blank countenance is meant to suggest a burly, hunky everyman — the sort of person you’d never suspect or look twice at, which makes Tucker well-positioned to leave a trail of corpses in his path.

Instead, it simply muddles the everyman point of the film.

But it was in 2000 when Texas Governor George W. Bush, who had developed a sort of bumbling everyman persona that the media and half the country found to be incredibly charming, made the "guy you'd like to have a beer with" the standard description of what Americans look for in a president.