The Republican Reichstag

So, there are several important issues that need to be addressed now that Trump is on his way out.

One, certainly, is that the Presidency is too strong.  Structurally, it is designed to give the President the ability to react quickly and forcefully to public needs.  But, when the president is corrupt and wants to use it for personal purposes, it can be devastating.  We now know what this is about. 

And, a corrollary is the mechanism to control the President, the oversight by the Congess, is ineffective when the Congressional leadership is complicit, as has been the Republican behavior.  I might add that our Republican leadership has only been outperformed in modern times by the Reichstag . . German parliament that passed the Enabling Act for Hitler.

We need to act. 

We need to fix the causes of this aberrant experience.