As Sherman the White Shark (in Sherman’s Lagoon) once observed when he ate a politician, there was neither taste of elephant nor hint of donkey - but rather, mostly baloney.
That said: the wonder is not that leaders in a republic are so bad, but that they’re as good as they are! It’s a systemic flaw, not just a flaw in whatever electorate happens to be using the system at the time.
As Sherman the White Shark (in Sherman’s Lagoon) once observed when he ate a politician, there was neither taste of elephant nor hint of donkey - but rather, mostly baloney.
That said: the wonder is not that leaders in a republic are so bad, but that they’re as good as they are! It’s a systemic flaw, not just a flaw in whatever electorate happens to be using the system at the time.