I wish US elections (or elections anywhere were not so much about cult of personality.
Democracies are about collection decision-making. The US has bounced back from COVID and Trump not because Joe Biden was awake every minute of the day for the past four years but because teams of legislators and bureaucrats were pulling together.
I wish people would think about voting for that team, not which candidate's a better pro wrestler.
Trump is 100 percent about cult of personality, and if he implements the Project 2025 agenda, legions of government staff will be fired (tried and executed?) and replaced with sycophants. Watch that team try getting anything done.
My message for voters (which I expect no-one to listen to) is vote like a grown-up or get ready for the administrative clown show.
Biden is a career politician of rhetoric and bureaucracy over action. A Chamberlain, not a Churchill. It's unlikely he will deploy his freshly affirmed immunity to any consequential effect. His successor most certainly will.
He doesn't look like he's in the mood to appease the next Hitler. But personally, I don't care about hero presidents. Politicians are nerds, not tough guys. That's what armies are for.
Half of the Republican presidents since 1977 were former film and television personalities. The others come from the same family. One quarter with no prior political experience. The right at least seems to lean heavily.
I wish US elections (or elections anywhere were not so much about cult of personality.
Democracies are about collection decision-making. The US has bounced back from COVID and Trump not because Joe Biden was awake every minute of the day for the past four years but because teams of legislators and bureaucrats were pulling together.
I wish people would think about voting for that team, not which candidate's a better pro wrestler.
Trump is 100 percent about cult of personality, and if he implements the Project 2025 agenda, legions of government staff will be fired (tried and executed?) and replaced with sycophants. Watch that team try getting anything done.
My message for voters (which I expect no-one to listen to) is vote like a grown-up or get ready for the administrative clown show.
Biden is a career politician of rhetoric and bureaucracy over action. A Chamberlain, not a Churchill. It's unlikely he will deploy his freshly affirmed immunity to any consequential effect. His successor most certainly will.
He doesn't look like he's in the mood to appease the next Hitler. But personally, I don't care about hero presidents. Politicians are nerds, not tough guys. That's what armies are for.
Half of the Republican presidents since 1977 were former film and television personalities. The others come from the same family. One quarter with no prior political experience. The right at least seems to lean heavily.