Late in the musical Hamilton, George Washington delivers a line about the importance self-imposing a term limit on his Presidency: If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on / It outlives me when I’m gone. It’s a powerful sentiment, a delineation between the individual and their contributions as an integral part of generational, organizational growth. A perfect leader for one moment in history may not be right for the next. Not everyone is a wartime consigliere.
While the current U.S. President-Elect may not be a fan of Hamilton (or term limits?