11-16-2022, 10:36 AM
(08-29-2022, 02:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(08-29-2022, 01:14 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-27-2022, 02:58 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Just because Trump was right on trade does not make him right on everything else he says and does. And just because Liz Cheney is right about Trump's Big Lie and Coup does not make her right in her neoliberal policies. Both scams need to be opposed and defeated.
Certainly true. Also true: being really good at A doesn't make you any better than anyone else at B. Lee Iacocca refused to run for President on the argument that CEOs are dictators, and dictators make lousy politicians. Judging by the business leaders of the last 100 years that rose to the Presidency (Hoover, Carter and Trump) that rule seems solid.
Carter's experience as a businessman in no way made him a better President than otherwise. He tried to bring his Georgia reforms to the federal government, and they did not get the results that he wanted after that. After that his Presidency became sclerotic. The business experience of George W. Bush had taught him nothing about politics.
Presidents are varied in their backgrounds. Take for example Colin Powell, who just passed fairly recently. He was encouraged to run for the office because he was a military man, and many thought that the last time we had a military President (Eisenhower) were the best years of our lives. And folks thought that Powell would be similar in nature. Yet he chose not to run.
Trump was a businessman and celebrity developer. And the public was clamoring for somebody not a lifelong politician to assume the office, and that's what we got. And how well did it, in the long run, turn out having a one-time movie star in the office?