Some recent global goings-on fully justify the somewhat enigmatic question in this headline. For example, there was the initial choice of leaders vying to win the US presidential election -- Donald Trump and Joe Biden, before the latter quit the race following unprecedented private pressure and public scrutiny. There was also Sheikh Hasina's ousting from power in Bangladesh, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu remaining at their respective helms amid raging wars, Nicolas Maduro facing calls for a reelection after disputed polls in Venezuela in July and the coups calamity in Africa (in the last four years, there have been nine successful and seven failed coups in West and Central Africa), among many other political crises.