As a politican you actually did a better job if everyone thinks you didn a "meh" job...

That's true today, but it's a sign of a fractured society.

Imagine a stadium full of people watching a hurdler run a race. Everyone should be able to basically agree on how many hurdles they cleared. There may be some debate over whether they performed well or not, but overall the crowd should be able to distinguish overwhelming success from complete failure. That is what society should look like if values and rules are agreed upon.

Instead politics is a bareknuckle boxing match, the stadium is full of people not looking for a fair match with mutually acceptable rules, but a one sided match where their guy wins even if by cheating, and the game is to hide his weaknesses while branding the opponent as evil even if it's an exaggeration. It's what happens when the people in the crowd don't even recognise each other as citizens.

There's something to that.

A lot of people want stability and security from their government as opposed to stress, excitement and uncertainty, I think.

The best politicians are the ones who do very little, in my opinion .
The less they do the less chances they have go screw things up worse

that used to be true but this covid thing really even made the "meh" ones look bad lol

As long as you didn't break anything

yeah no