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Let’s talk for a moment about the 2020 presidential election, OK?<\/p>\n

I want Americans to elect someone next time with actual government experience. I want a candidate to emerge from the tall grass, to surprise us all with his or her wisdom, smarts and vision.<\/p>\n

Yes, I realize I’m asking for a lot. A lot of the early favorites emerging on the Democratic Party front are fine folks. They’re mostly warhorses who we have seen already. We have seen a couple of fresh faces getting some of the chatter, too.<\/p>\n

I guess I am asking for political perfection.<\/p>\n

However, think for just a moment about this: The guy who got elected in 2016 managed to reset the standard for minimum qualifications. Donald Trump not only lowered<\/em> the bar, he laid the damn thing on the ground.<\/em> One cannot go any lower in terms of qualifications for the highest public office in the land — if not the world — than what Donald Trump presented.<\/p>\n

He brought zero government experience. Zero public service experience. Zero campaign experience. It turns out he brought next to zero business acumen. He built his political profile on a cache of exaggeration and lies.<\/p>\n

Yet he tapped into some wellspring of anger that had been simmering out there among enough voters in the correct states to win an Electoral College victory over a candidate who was eminently more qualified to hold the office of president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, was fond of telling us that his personal story proved that anyone<\/em> could assume the nation’s highest political office. With all due respect to the 44th president, compared to what Donald Trump brought to the 2016 campaign, former President Obama’s resume looked as if it bursts<\/em> with qualifications.<\/p>\n

Trump’s ignorance of all aspects of government only confirms what many of us believed when he rode down that Trump Tower escalator to announce his presidential candidacy: He offers nothing of substance, only bluster, bravado and boastfulness.<\/p>\n

By golly, folks bought it! Who woulda thunk it?<\/p>\n

Whoever challenges the president in 2020 — whether it’s in the Republican primary or in the general election (presuming he even runs again, let alone gets nominanted!) — had better bring his or her A-game of rhetorical aggression.<\/p>\n

You know Trump will spare none of it as he fights for re-election.<\/p>\n

I’m still going to hold out for the nearly perfect candidate.<\/p>\n\n

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