Because Facebook and Twitter (and Amazon and …) are actually judging him on the basis of his behavior; but our government is set on the assumption that once a person has been elected, (s)he’s automatically sane and good enough. Amendment 25 should work to handle this if someone is losing it… but this has now had a very obvious counter-example. The founders were blind to something that we are seeing more and more: They assumed that most of the people finding their way into government would have the best interests of the country at heart.
Because Facebook and Twitter (and Amazon and …) are actually judging him on the basis of his behavior; but our government is set on the assumption that once a person has been elected, (s)he’s automatically sane and good enough. Amendment 25 should work to handle this if someone is losing it… but this has now had a very obvious counter-example. The founders were blind to something that we are seeing more and more: They assumed that most of the people finding their way into government would have the best interests of the country at heart.