“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L. Mencken, 1928
I’d say that if Mencken is right then U.S. democracy has by now been perfected, viz.:
Screen-augmented monomania
White House megalomania
Plain corporate kleptomania
Pervasive mythomania
Narrative declarative
the abnormal dressed up formal
Its manners imperative
keeps propounding the ‘New Normal’
swallowed in mindless frivolity
amidst decaying life quality