I understand your point regarding term limits, but you cannot legislate the concept of a Cinncinatus. You either have a mindset that centers on acquiring executive power to accomplish a simple concrete goal and then set aside power when you're done, or you do not. Term limits just beget loophole exploitation.
e.g. I can't run for the Senate again, so I'll run for the HOR, due two terms there, then go back into the Senate.
Politicians seek power, and for many of them that power is an end goal in itself. Moreover, once you are exercising power, it is easy to come to view your exercise of that power as VITAL to the furtherance of the political program you hold dear.
Creating political leaders who seek to serve for a stretch as leader and then leave office and leave "the game" can only be accomplished on a cultural level.
So, ultimately, I disagree with term limits. If the voters, in a free and fair election, truly wish to have such leadership repeat, that IS their prerogative. I think you end up with a BOHICA situation, but that's their choice.
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