Reply #1: I always thought if there was anywhere he was being naive, it was there.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

The process got to this point over the course of 200 years. It's utterly naive to think you're going to stride in and change it in 2 years or even in 20 years. And, sadly, it's gotten to this point for some good reasons - namely that negotiating simply cannot be done in public, that "special interests" (and I hate that term - it's so misleading) probably should have a pretty big say whether that's popular or not, and the media is going to take their own pound of flesh. Without a structural change to how our government works - and I'm talking constitutional convention - the process is going to be the process.

It was dumb of him to make the claim that he was going to change that. It was a vast overreach or a tragic miscalculation.