It seems reasonable to conclude there is something like a “Good at Being President” rating composed of some mix of appropriate skills.
It also seems there is a “Good at Winning Elections” rating that overlaps with the “Good at Being President” rating in some ways.
And then there is a “Good at Being Popular and Having a Large Online Following” rating because of the ever-growing internet, which may be starting to overlap more and more with the “Good at Winning Elections” rating, and which itself has less overlap with the “Good at Being President” rating.
So then an Instagram chick with XXX million followers becomes POTUS because voting is so simple and no one knows anything and fake news is everywhere so everyone thinks all the “insider” candidates are corrupt and murderers and this Instagram chick probably has some good ideas and isn’t a shill to special interests...but said Instagram chick, by all reasonable accounts, has a very low “Good at Being President”, despite her incredible “Good at Being Popular and Having a Large Online Following” rating that allowed her to be elected.
Like I said, Trump winning isn’t inconceivable and ostensibly he has some POTUS skill rating. But how low a POTUS skill rating could we possibly elect if there is a crazy cynical, troll-ish, populist swell? If Instagram chick or Taylor Swift or Beyonce become president, do we just say, “Welp, the people have spoken! Yay, democracy!”
Well, that’s your revealed preference: you do know that Drake (or Trump) is worse for America’s interests than Hillary or Johnson.
It seems reasonable to conclude there is something like a “Good at Being President” rating composed of some mix of appropriate skills.
It also seems there is a “Good at Winning Elections” rating that overlaps with the “Good at Being President” rating in some ways.
And then there is a “Good at Being Popular and Having a Large Online Following” rating because of the ever-growing internet, which may be starting to overlap more and more with the “Good at Winning Elections” rating, and which itself has less overlap with the “Good at Being President” rating.
So then an Instagram chick with XXX million followers becomes POTUS because voting is so simple and no one knows anything and fake news is everywhere so everyone thinks all the “insider” candidates are corrupt and murderers and this Instagram chick probably has some good ideas and isn’t a shill to special interests...but said Instagram chick, by all reasonable accounts, has a very low “Good at Being President”, despite her incredible “Good at Being Popular and Having a Large Online Following” rating that allowed her to be elected.
Like I said, Trump winning isn’t inconceivable and ostensibly he has some POTUS skill rating. But how low a POTUS skill rating could we possibly elect if there is a crazy cynical, troll-ish, populist swell? If Instagram chick or Taylor Swift or Beyonce become president, do we just say, “Welp, the people have spoken! Yay, democracy!”