Well...that’s where both of these groups are headed.
The Washington crowd says they can save us all (either via the GOP, or Democrats)...then you sit and watch some fake ‘wrestling’ match where you just end up getting dumped by the side of the road, and the media telling you that things will clear up in the next election, if you just vote the right way.
The Berlin crowd does basically the same dance-act. They’ve got seven political parties, with the public news media helping to arrange national topics in some fake way to make you think your life is improving or getting better. Then occasionally, the Berlin crowd will say that they can’t fix this....only the EU machine can fix this.
A great example of this is trade talk. Basically, the Germans and virtually every single nation in the EU...gave up their trade-talk power, and ONLY the EU can talk for them now. Merkel could stand back and pull the strings on the puppet guys at the EU. But Trump figured that out. So he said....I’m aiming most of these tariffs at Germany...the EU reacts and puts tariffs on the US. Trump reacts and aims counter-tariffs ONLY on Germany, and the EU reacts again with more tariffs on the US. Each time...Trump and the EU (without thinking over it) are both gearing Germany for massive trade problem down the road. Wanna bet that Trump has another counter-counter-tariff in mind that only harms Germany, and the EU will react again?
In ten days, Trump appears at the NATO meeting in Brussels. 99-percent chance that he will announce US troops leaving Germany within two years. All of this is geared toward Merkel having to actually provide leadership within Germany (a talent she hasn’t shown in the past decade).
East or west of The Pond, it’s all the same uniparty.