Consider our current political moment:
The clear front-runner for one party's nomination is a former president who claims to have won a presidential election which he lost and who has 88 felony counts currently charged against him.
These indictments have increased his popularity within his party.
This former president is not on speaking terms with his former vice president because that former VP refused to assist him in overturning the election he lost. That former VP is running against him in the presidential primaries.
Meanwhile, his presumed opponent is a man who struggles putting together sentences and remembering the direction in which he is supposed to walk and will be 86 years old if he finishes a second term. His son, the most extraordinary lowlife of any child of any US president in history, is currently being investigated by a DOJ-appointed special counsel.
Should this president not complete a second term (which seems likely), his current vice president, a cackling unserious midwit who began her career by sleeping with a much older married man who happened to be the most powerful political figure in her state — who then facilitated her appointment to two state commissions and also gave her a BMW in appreciation for her, uhm, skill set — would become the most powerful person on earth.
It seems we should be able to do better than this.
