
Patrick Machayo is a public policy analyst and the Executive Director of a national veterans empowerment organization. His work has appeared in the Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the San Diego Times-Union. He is the author of Faux News: Mau-mauing in the Era of Trump and Biden and the forthcoming The Weight of the Biden Presidency: Power, Repair and the Strain of Governance. He is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Globalisation has reduced governments’ economic control, yet politics still promises outcomes leaders no longer fully command. There is a persistent belief in modern politics that governments have the ability to…