I just find it a bit strange how a chump governor from Arkansas and his hippy/commie wife could be someone we now call “powerful people”.
He was a disgrace as a governor and even more so as a “blow job beggin” president.
His hippy/commie wife was nothing but a grifter and a conwoman.
MY HOW LOW WE HAVE SUNK.
It is. But looking over European history, there were a lot of half-wits granted kingly power by the fluke of inheritance. In the US, representative government, combined with a genuinely inquiring press, was supposed to protect us against that by giving the public the information needed to choose wisely among candidates for leadership.
It doesn't work that way anymore, IMHO. And, once someone gets the levers of power... well they are the levers of power and of in-crowd membership. It's not quite the One Ring of Middle Earth, but it's up there.