> If you don’t believe competence can exist in federal government administration, then you don’t believe in our representative democracy. I have a different id

> If you don’t believe competence can exist in federal government administration, then you don’t believe in our representative democracy. I have a different idea of what the federal government should be doing than you. I want the government to be as limited as possible and focus on fundamental issues like national defense. The federal government continually fails - see Hurricane Katrina, Iraq / Afghanistan (Obama made the situation worse!), the Great Recession - these are caused because a centralized all-knowing all-powerful actor can’t fix every problem. It’s my philosophical belief. How will the pandemic be solved? The individual actions of millions people making their own localized choices. That’s how everything ultimately gets solved. You can dream of a perfect president who could wave his hands and make everything better. But it’s simply not possible.