When I was first old enough to vote it was 1980. Virtually every canidate was a veteran. In 1992 we elected our first draft dodger. He won even though he ran against a war hero. In 1996 we Republicans put up another veteran, another war hero in fact, but the draft dodger won again. So, in 2000 we Republicans put up a draft dodger of our own, and he won. There was no turning back.
In 2004 the Democrats put up a veteran and our draft dodger won reelection. In 2008 the Democrats one-upped us and elected someone who only had two years experience in politics. So in 2016 we Republicans put up someone with exactly zero years experience.
I don't expect things to get better, but I can see some unlikely things that could make them worse. Say we elected a president who had mob connections. Or we select someone with even more serious crimes in his background than the Clintons had. There are many things that are worse than what we've done.
