"Exceptional competence" compared to Trump, certainly, but after decades of the Democratic Party delivering close to nothing, comments like yours just make me sad and frustrated.

For example, socialized medicine has been standard in other developed countries for sixty years now, and yet after a world-shaking pandemic, it still isn't even being discussed in the United States.

Competent, law-abiding police officers is another standard feature of developed countries for generations, but one that again is not being discussed in the United States except at the most local level. The rest of the world watches in horror while American police officers who know they are being recorded commit the most terrible crimes with little or no consequences.