One of the hallmarks of the left is a complete lack of personal responsibility. An outcome of this feature is the quick revival of the biggest failures into new careers.
One thing that always puzzled me about professional coaches was how quickly they moved from one failure to the next. A lousy NFL coach who has three losing seasons is fired by one team only to be picked up by another. He does even worse in his new home, gets fired mid-season, lays low as he collects his guaranteed salary and voila, he now has his third coaching gig in a decade. The results at his final stop are no better.
The argument in pro sports is that there is a very small pool of people who have the tools to be a coach. The endless grind, the stress, the need to manage dozens of other coaches and players, the relationship with management, etc—there are simply not many people who know how to juggle so many dishes and not have them come crashing down onto the floor. That a coach was awful in one job is all but ignored as he is introduced into his new role. Two years later, he is fired in disgrace for producing only failure.
The same kind of phenomenon is common in many areas of our Western societies. Can you name anyone who was fired for all of the failures required to let 9/11 happen? Head of the CIA who was supposed to keep an eye on our foreign threats? Nope. Head of the FBI that actually knew of some of the terrorists in the country but never followed up? No. Head of immigration who should have tracked the hijackers, many of whom had........