You could say that in all caps 1000 times and it would still be an understatement.
Number one rule in US politics is for dog’s sake don’t say anything that will pin you down to a position, because at the next function you’ll be speaking to a group that will want you to say the opposite.
One reason our gov’t is so dysfunctional is that no one can say what they mean, so the electorate is constantly trying to parse what is true and what is just campaign rhetoric, always assigning the best intentions to the candidates one supports but certainly never giving the same benefit of the doubt to the other side. Then the elected politicians in turn are trying to parse what their constituents want, based on mis-interpretations of mis-interpretations. The fact that, a single day after the election, the buzz was “what does the election mean?”, means our democracy has totally failed- that’s the day when the public has the most possible information about what the electorate wants and it provided nothing because there was so much strategic voting and say-whatever-to-get-elected going on who knows what anyone actually wanted.
