[noduerme]

I mean, there is no question that a lot of people who voted for Trump would prefer a King or a Dictator to a President. They let that be known. And for whatever weird reason, they trust this guy to be the king. And that is not American, not in the America I grew up in. (But maybe it is what they always wanted in the South). Now that they have it, I guess the question is whether our laws and courts and congress will stop it if it gets out of hand.

One thing I think Republicans and Democrats agree about is that Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. One could see the corruption in the previous administration and, eventually, you can't help seeing it in whatever is happening now. The one hope is that Americans are not used to corruption, the way that people are in many other countries. Most countries I've lived in accept total corruption from their government as a daily fact. But Americans are still outraged by it. They don't accept it as normal.