I appreciate it luzyfuerza. You remember correctly, Bluto was elected Senator; makes sense to me!

It seems to me perfectly natural for the electorate to seek out non-traditional answers during a period of prolonged economic stagnation. In the US, in the 1930s, many thought to give communism a try because after all, if 'this is what capitalism is supposed to look like let's give something else a try'. Similarly, in the 1896 US election an odd populist came to the fore and almost won the presidency.

And of course, this is by no means a US-centered story. The Economist's Democracy Index is at its historic low (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/22/global-democracy-ha…). Cambridge University's long survey on satisfaction with democracy is, also, at its historic low (https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/dissatisfactiondemocracy). I do not think it unreasonable to say we are in a global depression.