Any tl;dr version for those interested enough to be curious but not interested in politics enough to read the Chinese Wall of Text?
(Also, any less bad candidate out there who actually has at least a snowball-in-hell chance? Idealism is a nice thing but in real, dirty and messy systems pragmatism gets better results. As an engineer I can say that a sleek machine you don’t have gets squarely beaten by a crudely repaired salvaged clunker you have.)
