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Stewart for President.
Never gonna happen, unfortunately. He's already said he won't run for office, because he feels he does more useful work from outside the system, asking the uncomfortable questions that need asking, until he gets an answer.
Don't get me wrong. I'd vote for Stewart for any office. I just know enough about the man to know that he refuses to run. He gets asked pretty regularly about it.
POTUS shouldn't be an entry level job.
POTUS should be a job filled by people with regular careers who serve their term, then return to their careers afterwards, if they don't wish to retire.
A POTUS who is a farmer will have unique insight on how to improve the lives of farmers. Then they go back to being a farmer too. Rinse and repeat for every other job. Doctor, college professor, cybersecurity professional, engineer, astronaut, etc, etc, etc.
Instead we just get career politician after career politician, usually with a background in law, or maybe finance.
There should be term limit reforms that also restrict ex-office holders from continuing careers as lobbyists* and other Capitol Hill creatures. Go back to your old career after holding office, or retire.
Sorry to burst your bubble but POTUS is a management position. You oversee millions of jobs as the head of the Executive branch.
It is a job that the vast majority do not have the skills or temperament to manage with any degree of competence. The plantation owner who oversaw the hundreds of jobs/slaves of the past might have been able to be the head of a smaller and weaker government but the modern farmer isn't going to have skills that transfer to POTUS.
The reason why it's finance, politicians, and lawyers that end up in the job is those are the fields whose skills actually do transfer.
POTUS isn't an entry level job. You should have governmental experience and a history of managing large organizations.
For real.