America makes much too much of the presidency. We have these epic-long campaigns that cost billions of dollars and still we end up with people we don’t trust. Other democratic nations can be so speedy at getting new heads of state that it’s easy to pine for a parliamentary method of choosing our president. Consider how expeditiously Prime Minister David Cameron was replaced after the recent vote on Brexit, which Cameron had opposed. Having been against leaving the E.U., he was at odds with the citizenry, so he had to go, and before you know it the Brits are being led by Theresa May. And when Neville Chamberlain was shown to have erred in judgment about Hitler, he was quickly replaced with Churchill. Members of Parliament were able to quickly settle on suitable new leaders; they didn’t need input from the People in national elections. Of course, Cameron and Chamberlain had the decency to resign, which made it even easier to replace them. Resignations, however, rarely...(Read Full Article)