Yes

VDH diagnoses the problem with contemporary politicians.

The Bloomberg syndrome is a characteristic of contemporary government officials. When they are unwilling or unable to address pre-modern problems in their jurisdictions — crime, crumbling infrastructure, inadequate transportation — they compensate by posing as philosopher kings who cheaply lecture on existential challenges over which they have no control.

As I was thinking earlier today, for all the Americans who think the United States is the problem in the world, then you probably do not have very big problems.