On the Fact that Smart Folks Like Thomas Sowell, Heather MacDonald, and Jeff Greenfield Never Run for Office and We Always Seem to Get Stuck Instead with Dolts Like Bush, Obama, Trump, and Hillary

Yeah, I think that Hayek pretty much summed it up best when he stated that people of higher intelligence and integrity have a proclivity to want to engage the private sector and that only folks with low self-esteem would ever want a job that quite literally forces you to grovel for the support of both the docile and the gullible and to do so for your entire tenure. That would be my theory at least.