I had a sense from him back in 2015 that he was an absolute narcissistic con man. But what is most alarming in hindsight is that, as the article points out, our government's careful plan for checks and balances has utterly failed, due most likely to toxic levels of partisanship. (I blame Republicans).

Am I being partisan? Absolutely, but how can a Democrat not feel that way when the GOP, has repeatedly and cynically attacked the foundations of democracy? Starting with Nixon's Southern Strategy and Lee Atwater's Machiavelli campaign strategy of intentional misdirection of the majority electorate, ...and hitting its stride with Gingrich's "contract with America" and his intentional demonization of ANY bipartisan cooperation, the GOP set the stage for the breakdown we are seeing now, where an angry segment of the public is actually cheering for authoritarianism and abandonment of democracy. For democrats to fail to push back HARD would amount to tacit approval for GOP dismantlement of government.

The Dems have certainly made mistakes, but the situation the USA finds itself in is certainly not a matter of equivalent guilt "on all sides."