That's actually a very funny joke. I like the part where you indulge the fantasy that the president is on "our side," whatever that is. Half of the people rooting for the occupant of the Oval Office want to blame Republicans for cutting too much in the recent budget deal! Leadership isn't the issue. The politicians in Washington believe that they are leading. They think they are working the system and preserving it for all the right people. They don't see anything wrong with their leadership.
The problem is one of power, not leadership. The politicians in Washington have usurped entirely too much of it. Five hundred people in the imperial capital's echo chamber cannot successfully comandeer the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor of three hundred fifty million people across a three thousand mile wide continent to the outrageous extent that they have without causing all sorts of corruption, dysfunction, and conflict. If anyone wants to fix that problem, the federal government needs to be dismantled, before it collapses anyway. I can't see many people being ready to do that, despite the fact that a recent poll shows that most of the population has lost faith in the federal behemoth.
Encourage this president to do those sorts of things?
The problem is one of power, not leadership. The politicians in Washington have usurped entirely too much of it. Five hundred people in the imperial capital's echo chamber cannot successfully comandeer the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor of three hundred fifty million people across a three thousand mile wide continent to the outrageous extent that they have without causing all sorts of corruption, dysfunction, and conflict. If anyone wants to fix that problem, the federal government needs to be dismantled, before it collapses anyway. I can't see many people being ready to do that, despite the fact that a recent poll shows that most of the population has lost faith in the federal behemoth.