We have to be realistic about what Washington can accomplish on its own. Without the people mobilized behind Washington, very little can be accomplished. The framers of the Constitution designed government that way. It was an ingenious design. It was intended to make it difficult to do much of anything.
Social change has to come from the bottom up.
Washington can legitimize it, take it across the finish line, but it has to well up. In your book, you say that Washington is meaner and nastier than ever. People get ground up. There are very mean-spirited folks. And the press is constantly out to get you.