I saw two brief, seemingly inconsequential snippets of political news analysis the other day. Both confirmed for me that President Spray Tan McCheetos will not only be elected to a second term, but will become America’s first Ruler for Life.

The first was a TV talking head wondering whether U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren should try to out-liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is surging in the polls. The idea was that Warren is losing ground because she and Sanders share the same end of the political spectrum, therefore, she should out-Bernie Bernie to recapture her mojo.

To bolster his point, he showed video of Warren attempting to do exactly that, telling a crowd of supporters that “now is not the time to think small,” the suggestion being that Bernie is a small thinker, and she is not. It was, basically, “mine is bigger than yours” politics, which benefits no one.

Warren didn’t say what “big” things are coming, but you can bet it won’t be long before she’s proposing something grand and probably silly, like government-funded butlers for all or a law requiring employers to provide mandatory recess for employees twice a day, like in grade school (both good ideas, actually).

Like most Democrats, Warren — who is the sort of tough, smart, compassionate person who would probably make a fine president — seems to believe with every fiber of her soul that Americans care a lot about a candidate’s policy stances.

News for her: We do not.

We may like to think we do. We may say we do.

But the fact is, when faced with a choice between a longtime policy wonk (Hillary Clinton) and a TV reality show character whose primary policy stance was “Make America Great Again,” we chose the latter.

And we did so despite ample evidence that Donald Trump is a deeply flawed, morally bankrupt human being.

Historians will argue the “why” for centuries. I don’t know what their ultimate judgment will be. Was it the red hat? The jingoistic slogan? The fact that enough people thought they were getting “The Apprentice” guy?

But I do know that none of them will say, “It was his deeply researched and nuanced policies.”

It boggles me that Democrats don’t understand that. They continue to act as if America will swoon and fall in line if they can just come up with the right policy (A million dollars for everyone! Spray tans for all!).

That’s what I call “magic bean” thinking, the idea that enormous beanstalks will emerge from ordinary beans, and we will climb these beanstalks and reach a land of riches in the clouds.

The media is into magic bean thinking, too.

The other day, for instance, another talking head suggested that the audio of Trump of talking to Lev Parnas — the Ukrainian-born American businessman-slash-sleazebag who helped Rudy Giuliani and Trump unsuccessfully pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden’s son — might finally be the revelation that topples the president, who claimed he doesn’t know Parnas.

But it won’t be.

There have been approximately 150,000 “a-ha!” gotcha moments before this one, and none has brought Trump low. Why would this one be any different? Because Trump lied? Please. The Washington Post has kept a running list of verifiable Trump lies. As of last week, he was up to 16,241 (say what you want, but the man is an over-achiever when it comes to prevarication).

Clearly, people don’t care if their president lies to them. Not enough, anyway. Nor are they likely to care when the GOP-controlled Senate acquits him in several weeks’ time. Right now, Trump, the ultimate cult of personality candidate who, for all his faults, understands Americans far better than his opponents, is on the glide-path to reelection.

If only the Democrats had a policy that could prevent it.