Welp, Orange Man Bad has announced his run for 2024
(beckernews.com)
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That's an immediate failure and a great example of not thinking 5 minutes down the road.
All having term limits for members of congress will achieve will solidify the swamp as the people "advising" the congress members will do all the work as you'll have a constant stream of people coming in that don't know the game. The elected official is just the tip of the iceberg.
This is what happened in my state. It really gave lobbying groups and bureaucrats who stay in for decades a lot of power. Had a nice side benefit of getting people in who focus on just getting what they can while they can before they term out. Things like tripling their pay, increasing per diem, nice things like that.
That plus in California, where they have term limits, the politicians play musical chairs with the elected positions. Its the same people, they just move between different jobs.