" Her sheer ordinariness is to me not quite the insurmountable problem that you seem to find it... "

-I didn't point to her "ordinariness"...on the contrary I suggested that her manner & behaviour propose there's something really not normal going on in there: maybe alcohol or drugs.
You clearly believe an unaddled mind might make a difference but I don't reckon that's what you'd be getting with Harris either.

-It really can get any lower this Democracy stuff...a bizarre egotistical idiot man-child, a disfunctional ranting alcoholic and, well, the other one whose brain has been munched by yet actual parasitical worm...all vyeing for the throne presently occupied by a geriatric genocidal crook whose own mind is a fading palimpsist.

-This is perhaps the "whimper" as opposed to the "bang" that Empires go out on, right?