The Ents would perform badly in primetime debates

[Shermann]

Tolkien's Ents are famously wise but slow-paced in their deliberations. During an Entmoot, (a meeting of Ents), they sometimes deliberate for three days—which, from their perspective, was considered quite swift—before deciding to take action. Managing a forest doesn't require split-second decisions, which is many ways is similar to setting the course of a country at the highest level. The Ents would reject any requirement to respond to important matters within two minutes. They would prioritize responding correctly over responding quickly.

[The Wandering Harper]

1. humans are terribly hasty.

Ents are my favorite characters in those books

[Shermann]

2. Bush 43 and Trump 45 objectively made bad decisions

Bush 43 invaded Iraq on bad evidence. Trump 45 counter-messaged the immunologists on his own Coronavirus Task Force and undermined their authority. No president can claim zero missteps, but I'm not aware of anything at this level during Biden's first term.

This displeases the Ents.

[The Wandering Harper]

3. Democrats are definitely more Ent-like

than Republicans