They won’t have a choice. It will be imposed on them, like Andrew Jackson, like Abraham Lincoln, like Teddy Roosevelt, and, yes, like Ronald Reagan.
Completely agree with you, and note your very good examples from history.
These men seem to come once a generation or so, do they not?
Many people today believe in what had been called “conspiracy theories” in the past. Of course not everything that is said is true but many people are realizing how corruption works in this country. The media and especially the internet has opened people’s eyes to what American corruption is really like. When we hear the word corruption, I think most of us think of some third world country and it was unthinkable to say that our country was corrupt—it would have seemed unpatriotic and extreme to say such a thing. But today many people are catching on to how it really works in the first world nations likes ours. In the first world nations the leaders have to pretend to be ladies and gentlemen, in the third world countries they don’t bother. First world countries have to be more suave, clever and charming to win the people’s loyalty. We have more likable crooks, that is the difference.