[kadoban]

The US government barely survived an incompetent carnival barker, let's not give the founders too much credit.

The system they set up has far too much ambiguity and survives only as long as honorable people are in the correct places at the correct times and _just_ barely enough were, this time, to prevent it all from completely crashing down.

> [...] ultimately he was forced to step down, and though justice is slow, he is finally seeing justice for his many crimes.

I mean I'll take it, but he's only being prosecuted for a small fraction of the shit he did, even if we ignore his whole life before the presidency. Our justice system has been openly corrupted by the rich and the powerful.