I think this is the culture of liberal procedural democracy in general. We are explicitly trained to believe our job is to choose public servants and they plus existing law will take care of the rest. It's not accidental, of course. It's supposed to make us helpless.

"Kid, you're not gonna believe this. I don't know if I do either. But there was a certain type of post trump naivite that made us all think Run the Jewels would last forever"