The American problem?

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers."

John Adams 1735 - 1826 2nd Presidence of the USA.

Trump sence?
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts"
Henry Brooks Adams 1907

J D Vance - His forgotten lesson on the office of USA Vice President?

"My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived"

John Adams, USA Vice President - 19 December 1793