Corporate managers tend to be myopic for the obvious reasons; so too, one supposes, the political consultants, who also depend upon the favors of those up the chain of command in the funding sources.
Not quite the same thing as the terror in the peacetime army, when an unrecognized Pfc. with a clipboard shows up in the area, until someone figures out to whom he is reporting.
Well, the myopia in large part comes from the fact that the consultant class works for the pols because they come from the same Ivy League schools and live in the same neighborhoods. I’m starting to think that one reason Clinton was so successful is that outside of Dickie Morris, his consultants were from Arkansas/Louisiana (Like Serpenthead). So I think they always kept him pretty well informed of what real Americans wanted.