Sometimes I wonder if political actors are like... a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy.

There was a time when the actor was the original or close enough to the original that they actually had some ability to know what they were doing. But after many generations of actors following the previous actors, they all just kinda... forgot how to do things and are just coasting on vibes, aesthetics, and "this is how it was always done" until they either "cash out" or "crash and burn."