It's the technocracy! I also think that's what Americans didn't like about Hillary Clinton (among other things). She seems to look at governing much more like an engineer.
Deeply deeply disagree (and my background is CS/Software Engineering+Public Policy).
She has way more attention to minute policy detail than anyone who has been elected president in the past few decades. And the knowledge of detail is a double edged sword, because it's hard to sell what you know to be an oversimplification (which almost everyone here can relate to).
She was the furthest from an engineer except for all the other candidates in the field. As I remember, our "real engineer" presidents were Carter and Hoover, both famously ineffectual politicians. So, yeah, I think it's safe to infer a kind of trend.
