From corner office to Oval Office

摘要

The front-runners in the race to become the Republican Party's candidate for president of the United States, Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump, share more than mutual disdain. Both believe that their time spent in a corner office, bossing around underlings, posing for photos for the covers of glossy business magazines and overseeing billion-dollar deals, counts as preparation for the presidency. This business-as-brilliance worldview has long been popular among Republicans. Mitt Romney, who ran for president in 2012, pointed to his career running Bain Capital, a successful private-equity firm, as proof that he could run a country.