The point is that what we're witnessing is the logical end result of the preceding decades of giving the federal executive more and more unchecked power (it did

The point is that what we're witnessing is the logical end result of the preceding decades of giving the federal executive more and more unchecked power (it didn't start with Bush, either). Trump is indeed uniquely bad in many ways, but the reason why he can do so much damage is because he was given access to the tools accumulated by previous presidential administrations. I hope that we'll learn our lesson once this is over. But I'm also skeptical.