George Will argues the U.S. Charter must be amended to ban senators from turning into president.
“Seventeen presidents had been in the past senators. Seven of them – Harding, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Obama, Biden — was senators after 1913, when the seventeenth Modification took the collection of senators clear of state legislatures. The government’s expansion, and the nationwide media’s focal point on Washington, has larger the prominence of senators longing for prominence, even though it continuously is the prominence of a boat’s figurehead — ornamental, now not practical.”
“As president-centric executive has waxed, the Senate has waned, turning into an increasing number of a theater of performative behaviors by way of senators who’re decreasingly concerned about legislating, and are an increasing number of preoccupied with the use of social media for self-promotion.”
