re: #276 KGxvi

I’d also add that this opinion seemed to be Hamilton’s opinion of how the system would work in the Federalist Papers. Of course, I don’t think Hamilton foresaw a political party so cowed by a president that it would give up any sort of oversight role.

The Founding Fathers were trying to devise a form of government that would prevent such a thing from happening, as much as humanly possible, anyway. But they were rational men who assumed that the country’s voters would only be rational, educated men of means. Even then, their hope was probably misplaced. Humans seem predisposed to follow charismatic leaders blindly, especially if those leaders enable them to proceed with their own agendae. That’s what the GOP has in Trump. He doesn’t care what shit they do, as long as they let him do his own shit.