Anne Applebaum was arguing for a brokered convention because it would make politics interesting and I’m like “No! We don’t want politics to be interesting!”
if what we have today is democracy at its best, why would we want to save it?
we certainly don't want to put our fate in the hands of a man who stole from a charity, but what is the best way to run things?
if we put economists in charge, would that lead to a rational world order?