The similarities are startling. Too bad the prognosis is all gloom-and-doom (basically, as I read it: "You've got 25+ more years to get through, first."), or I'd pay for Mr. Sullivan's plane ticket to D.C. myself.

If the only way out of (OK, through) Bill and Ted's George and Dick's Excellent Adventure is a "surge", then roll credits - leaving the place a worse seething cauldron than when we moved in - then they're just leaving it to the next President & Co to solve; a situation worse than "cut 'n run", IMO.