The comparison Obama made is between a speed boat vs an ocean liner. Democracy doesn't move fast but that prevents some incompetent like Trump from driving the

The comparison Obama made is between a speed boat vs an ocean liner. Democracy doesn't move fast but that prevents some incompetent like Trump from driving the country off a cliff. Meanwhile whoever wins the power struggle after Big Daddy Xi can careen off the bridge faster than Louis Hamilton, because there is no system to prevent such realised incompetence in an autocracy. We will see.