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Welcome to the kakistocracy ladies and gentlemen
The least competent, the least qualified, the least capable, the least educated, the least able to even begin to govern rationally are now in charge of our country.
Is our political system really producing the "best and the brightest"? Not so much. I think this experiment in democracy has run its course. We just haven't realized it yet.