The unserious effort behind the serious work required for 'MAGA'

THE undying but misplaced faith in the "Great Man Theory" is the reason why most punditry places the blame on the agriculture sector's inexorable slide to mediocrity on the absence of a full-time agriculture secretary. As if, with a great man or woman serving as full-time steward, execution of the major programs would shift from inertia to dynamism, listless personnel would find their mojo, the drift and meandering that is right now the mood at the Department of Agriculture (DA) would overnight shift to a sense of mission and purpose.

(This is an addendum: the sense of drift at the DA and the agency's tattered reputation is of recent vintage, probably as recent as the craven food imports mania.)