This sort of fatalistic, take what you are given, attitude is astounding to me.

Calling for anyone better than who is being offered is hugely different than asking for the most qualified or capable individual to do the job. On some metric I’m sure there’s a “best” candidate out of all Americans, but my complaint is about the ocean of potential candidates between “best” and what we’ve got.

And I get the “have a beer with” factor, I’m not even saying it’s a bad thing. Being likeable as a head of state can be a significant advantage when dealing with foreign leaders, international press, or promoting domestic policy.

But these men are dinosaurs. If Trump is sworn in, he’ll be older than Reagan was when he left office. And Biden is already three years older than that. How many altered diary entries are we going to hear about after they leave office, because they’ll have been dealing with alzheimer’s or dementia while in office too?