Pretending for a moment POTUS is anything other than an indicator light on a particular polling methodology...
You have [power], but you're not allowed to run for a third term. What do you do? Get your protege elected. Your padawan, who hangs on your every word. Result: responsibility laundering. You are making all the decisions, some other bastard/sucker is taking all the blame.
Your padawan runs out of term limit. What do you do? You graduate from master to grandmaster. He gets his protege to be POTUS, and you can half-retire, retaining true power without all that icky [coming to work] nonsense.
Your padawan has been trained. He knows what you want and how to get it. He can instruct the next POTUS on all the minutiae without you having to do it personally. He knows hillary will be told he has materials that might lead to her arrest, if he doesn't. And there's always epstein.
Term limits were introduced specifically to spark this dynamic. Nobody can demand the grandmaster doesn't [[retire]] - it's illegal not to, lol. Nobody can shackle you to the POTUS white elephant.
Since POTUS doesn't have power this is a toy model. Although a toy, it's almost isomorphic to whatever seats do in fact have power. If it's good enough for POTUS, it's good enough for the general secretary for energy or whatever, now isn't it? The kings of america's 500 kingdoms have all installed their proteges to do their bidding without the king himself having to go to the office. Or, god forbid, show up in the news. If voters need to know your name, you're doing it all the way wrong. If voters even can know your name, you're a prole.
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