Fan Retrospectives: The Chaotic In-Universe Politics of the MCU

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been an ongoing saga for about 17 years running. Apart from the the Avengers' adventures, it is really interesting to see how their superheroics affects their in-universe politics and just how absolutely crazy it is. When you take a step back and look at their line of US Presidents, one has to wonder what is the how the US government still functions as well as it does. Not an exaggeration, but every US president in the MCU had momentous disruptions under their administrations that was full of destruction of major historical landmarks, bouts of fascism, and multiple high-ranking officials being revealed as traitors or killers. President Ellis' Administration 2013's Iron Man 3 introduces our first President of the United States: Matthew Ellis. Now Ellis himself is not anymore corrupt than a typical politician. Yes, he has made shady back-alley deals to not punish some big-money oil tycoons for white collar crimes, but that's par for ...