It only feels different now because this President's image is based on such bluster. He's speaking to his people in the way that they like. A lot of past US Pr

It only feels different now because this President's image is based on such bluster. He's speaking to his people in the way that they like. A lot of past US Presidents were likely no more competent, but their images demanded that they appear such. Reagan was probably suffering from dementia. JFK was high most of the time. It's just that the PR strategy for those guys was different because their public personae were groomed for different expectations. Well that, and neither had Twitter. Idiocracy is an easy pull and rings true because of outward appearances, but the reality is (and probably always has been) closer to Vonnegut's Player Piano or Kubrik's Doctor Strangelove.