Raptorpat

I guess my response is that means legislators are effectively just for show masking the real institution (the staff), who aren't elected to anything.

The problem with legislative term limits is still that the institutional memory devolves from the elected, responsible decision makers to the staff, and if you find a way to term limit the staff then the institutional memory devolves to the private sector lobbying class outside of the institution itself. Legislative term limits would have to be much less restrictive than either the exec or judiciary.

in the clip he says gov walz never asked him to do it the day after the assassination he said something along the lines of he wasn't going to call gov walz because walz is crazy and it would be a waste of time

when asked about the double standard

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/trump-slams-hochul-endorsement-mamdani-00563685

Gov Hochul endorsed Mamdani via NYTimes op-ed https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/opinion/hochul-endorsement-mamdani.html

authoritarians want to be hated by their enemies, they feed off it. but they can't handle being mocked.