What a great post; I both love it and it also makes me sad.
So, so true.
"The past 10 years government has been performative art"; I'm stealing that, but will give you a dollar every time I use it..................

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First we had someone with zero political or military experience run the country for four years, then we had a 45 year empty suit hack politician run it (or so it seemed), now we're back to someone with zero political or military experience running it again.
It's stunning that as a nation, this is the best we can come up with.
It's staggering really.