Even in this heat, they’re talking presidentials!

Not even the fact that we’re a year and a half out from the presidential election, February 2028, puts them off. Not the developments already reshaping the landscape, at home and across the region. And certainly not the dog days of summer, late to arrive this year, but here now. None of it slows them down. All of it, though, and plenty more besides, is very much our problem. The public’s.

Talk of the presidentials actually kicked off back in 2023, the day after the last one. But now the...