Our governmental system doesn't really have adequate "checks and balances" to address an Executive that is as willing to aggressively violate the law. It anticipates "men of honor" occupying offices of responsibility. Although the framers anticipated some efforts to evade the laws and norms, some danger from demagogues, they did not anticipate the all-out assault and willingness to destroy the government itself in pursuit of that effort.

Trump has taken numerous actions to literally destroy our democratic forms. It will take more than a single presidential term to fix all that he has broken. If we cannot gain control over the mechanisms of Democracy before this election, we may end this experiment in a messy, messy disaster.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich