senators, vice presidents, gen. truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, every one of them build their career not just in government but in washington. no surprise there, right? figure out what happened before this. go began. the federal government was widely credited with licking the depression, beating the axis. americans had a lot of confidence in the federal government. then along comes the vietnam war and the watergate crisis. starting with jimmy carter's election in 1976, the country still wanted people with experience in government but not in washington. that was part of carter's appeal as it was governor ronald reagan, governor bill clinton, governor george w. bush, we were experienced people but not part of the mess in washington. the next iteration of this trend is somebody who comes along and says i have no experience in washington and i have no experience in government and that is a reason to vote for me. that is sort of where we are now as people are looking ahead to 2020 and talking about mark zucke