Dean Phillips, a successful businessman and former Minnesota Congressman, challenged Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic primaries because he couldn’t find anyone else who would.

Now that the coverup of Biden’s perilous health has been proven, Phillips says there are lessons to be learned about the “honesty deficit” in Washington:

If we don’t reflect on the lack of honesty from the White House all the way down to House leadership, to members of Congress–and by the way, this is not unique to the Biden enterprise–this is a symptom of a broader disease.”

Having now been a member of Congress and seen firsthand how this incentive system works, I do understand why this happened. And that’s why we have to change it…. if you wish to become a leader, if you aspire to national office, if you get out of line… and now I know why nobody would accept my call or take that charge to enter the primary, because if they had and it hadn’t worked out, their political career was over.

So I think this begs the question about how do we create a new incentive system for people who are rewarded for being honest and people of integrity rather than being punished?